On Mar 24, 5:40 pm, "Pieter" wrote:
>> On Mar 24, 3:20 pm, Deborah
blanketyblank.com> wrote:>>> On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:52:26 -0700 (PDT), Reality Scan
>
>>>>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)
>
>> 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"???
>
>> 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.
Gee, Pieter. How can I argue with such profound stupidity?
Clearly only the blessed with an electronic search capability instead
of a brain could make such an argument.
