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Author: Dick
Date: Mar 28, 2008 18:30

A TRILOGY ON METAPHYSICS AND THE HUMAN SOUL
(Dedicated to the Honor and the Glory of God)
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A SHORT TREATISE ON THE REALITY OF GOD
God is the ultimate reality. He has spun the universes into existence
and has created all other beings. As humans, we too had our beginning
from God. Like Plato and Socrates, I believe that we pre-existed in a
spiritual realm prior to being born into this world. Unfortunately
the
church fathers, with the exceptions of Origen and Augustine, rejected
this view as an overreaction to the heresies of gnosticism and
neoplatonism that threatened to subvert the Gospel. How do I know of
this pre-existence? I have very faint memories of a spiritual
existence
before being born into this world. My children spoke of this of this
existence when they were small. I have heard of other 2-4 year old
children being able to talk of their own pre-existence in the
spiritual
realm prior to their earthly birth, when carefully questioned about
it. ...
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Re: Mysteries of God         


Author: Immortalist
Date: Mar 28, 2008 18:38

On Mar 28, 6:30 pm, Dick mchsi.com> wrote:
>             A TRILOGY ON METAPHYSICS AND THE HUMAN SOUL
>            (Dedicated to the Honor and the Glory of God)
>             --------------------------------------------
>              A SHORT TREATISE ON THE REALITY OF GOD
> God is the ultimate reality. He has spun the universes into existence
> and has created all other beings.

How do you know that?
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Re: Mysteries of God         


Author: ZerkonX
Date: Mar 29, 2008 08:31

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:30:06 -0700, Dick wrote:
> A SHORT TREATISE ON THE REALITY OF GOD
> God is the ultimate reality.

Well, that's that then.
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Re: Mysteries of God         


Author: THE BORG
Date: Apr 11, 2008 15:27

You speak of the Jewish biblical God? The one named Jehovah or Yaweh?
You really SHOULD define and state which God you refer to for those who
follow another or other Gods.
THE BORG

"Dick" mchsi.com> wrote in message
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> A TRILOGY ON METAPHYSICS AND THE HUMAN SOUL
> (Dedicated to...
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