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Author: Reality ScanReality Scan Date: Mar 24, 2008 12:24
On Mar 24, 2:22 pm, Reality Scan netzero.com> wrote:> On Mar 24, 2:11 pm, Mike yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>> On Mar 24, 2:01 pm, Reality Scan netzero.com> wrote:>
>>> On Mar 24, 12:38 pm, Mike yahoo.com> wrote:>
>>>> On Mar 24, 11:03 am, Reality Scan netzero.com> wrote:>
>>>>> On Mar 24, 1:27 am, Gene Ward Smith chewbacca.org> wrote:>
>>>>>> We are told that the Son has the capacity, lacking in Father and Holy
>>>>>> Spirit, of believing in error. We are also told that the Son is a
>>>>>> perfect creation. This really only makes sense if the ability to
>>>>>> believe in error is a part of the Son's perfection. Yet how can this be?
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>>>>>> A perfect outcome of all things is sure. We are told that God's will
>>>>>> will be done. The outcome is a part of God's eternal world, but the ...
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Author: LeeLee Date: Mar 24, 2008 12:28
Reality Scan netzero.com> wrote:>> .... I'm not really clear on
> what "self created," means. And the author really doesn't attempt to
> explain it. In that respect, sometimes reading the Course is like
> listening to Fox News.
LOL!
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Author: Gene Ward SmithGene Ward Smith Date: Mar 24, 2008 12:58
>> Perhaps God defines himself as incapable of thinking error. Every object
of
>> his thought must be perfection.
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> Well geez, I don't know. When an entity has the exhausted and largely
> incomprehensible to even create the rules and laws by which the entity
> "creates," the notion of "perfection," is ah . . ..inadequate.
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No less inadequate than "God trap". One may suppose it includes the
impossibility of God traps among other things.
In any case, it's just Course language, which ascribes perfection and the
inability to think error to God.
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Author: MikeMike Date: Mar 24, 2008 13:01
On Mar 24, 2:22Â pm, Reality Scan netzero.com> wrote:> On Mar 24, 2:11 pm, Mike yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>> On Mar 24, 2:01 pm, Reality Scan netzero.com> wrote:>
>>> On Mar 24, 12:38 pm, Mike yahoo.com> wrote:>
>>>> On Mar 24, 11:03 am, Reality Scan netzero.com> wrote:>
>>>>> On Mar 24, 1:27 am, Gene Ward Smith chewbacca.org> wrote:>
>>>>>> We are told that the Son has the capacity, lacking in Father and Holy
>>>>>> Spirit, of believing in error. We are also told that the Son is a
>>>>>> perfect creation. This really only makes sense if the ability to
>>>>>> believe in error is a part of the Son's perfection. Yet how can this be?
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Author: Gene Ward SmithGene Ward Smith Date: Mar 24, 2008 13:00
>> Unless it knew that was impossible.
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> Yeah, but how could God possibly "know" that?
By knowing why his is existence is necessary, he might know why it is the
only existence which is necessary.
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Author: MikeMike Date: Mar 24, 2008 13:01
On Mar 24, 2:24Â pm, Reality Scan netzero.com> wrote:> On Mar 24, 2:22 pm, Reality Scan netzero.com> wrote:
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>>> On Mar 24, 2:11 pm, Mike yahoo.com> wrote:>
>>> On Mar 24, 2:01 pm, Reality Scan netzero.com> wrote:>
>>>> On Mar 24, 12:38 pm, Mike yahoo.com> wrote:>
>>>>> On Mar 24, 11:03 am, Reality Scan netzero.com> wrote:>
>>>>>> On Mar 24, 1:27 am, Gene Ward Smith chewbacca.org> wrote:>
>>>>>>> We are told that the Son has the capacity, lacking in Father and Holy
>>>>>>> Spirit, of believing in error. We are also told that the Son is a
>>>>>>> perfect creation. This really only makes sense if the ability to ...
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Author: DeborahDeborah Date: Mar 24, 2008 13:09
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:13:15 GMT, Gene Ward Smith chewbacca.org>
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>Deborah pumpetypump.com> wrote in
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>>> On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 06:27:49 GMT, Gene Ward Smith chewbacca.org>
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>> >>>We are told that...
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Author: DeborahDeborah Date: Mar 24, 2008 13:15
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 07:36:24 GMT, "James"
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>Gene desperate for somebody to talk to him.
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>Hi Gene.
Proving once again that all the EOTS folks are here to do is disrupt
any course discussion that arises.
Deborah (BC)
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Author: DeborahDeborah Date: Mar 24, 2008 13:20
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:52:26 -0700 (PDT), Reality Scan
netzero.com> wrote:
>Yeah, but how could God possibly "know" that? I'm not really clear on
>what "self created," means. And the author really doesn't attempt to
>explain it. In that respect, sometimes reading the Course is like
>listening to Fox News. But then again, I could just be cynical.
It means God wasn't created by something else like His creations are.
It means He's first cause of creation.
Deborah (BC)
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Author: CarrieCarrie Date: Mar 24, 2008 13:27
"Deborah" blanketyblank.com> wrote in message
news:7t2gu3d9b8jm2hneuv5a1u581pcaqtirao@4ax.com...> On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 07:36:24 GMT, "James"
> gmail.com> wrote:
>>>Gene desperate for somebody to talk to him.
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>>Hi Gene.
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> Proving once again that all the EOTS folks are here to do is disrupt
> any course discussion that arises.
If you believe this, why let them by giving attention to it?
I mean, it seems simple.
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> Deborah (BC)
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