| Re: The Perfection of God's Son |
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Group: talk.religion.coursemiracle · Group Profile
Author: PieterPieter Date: Mar 24, 2008 15:40
> On Mar 24, 3:20 pm, Deborah blanketyblank.com> wrote:>> On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:52:26 -0700 (PDT), Reality Scan
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>> 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.
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>> It means God wasn't created by something else like His creations are.
>> It means He's first cause of creation.
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>> Deborah (BC)
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> Are you supplying that "meaning," and is that meaning sufficient to
> understand the concept. And if you think it is --then why use the term
> "self-creating," which implies a creation, rather than a term such as
> "always existing"???
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> I mean if God is self creating what existed before God self created?
- The Course does not say that God created Himself.
It says: "Man can perceive himself as self-creating,
but he CANNOT do more than BELIEVE it.
He CANNOT make it true."
This is the only sense in which "self-creating" is used.
> None of this addresses the essential question in philosophy --why
> there is something instead of nothing?
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