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Group: talk.religion.coursemiracle · Group Profile
Author: PieterPieter Date: Mar 27, 2008 05:21
"Gene Ward Smith" chewbacca.org> schreef in bericht
news:Xns9A6D8B381631Cgenewardsmithsbcglob@207.115.17.102...>> Yeah, I should have said "no direct textual support."
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>>> and attributes that property to the prime creator.
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>> That's the part that's inferred. :)
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> The inference is a strong one.
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> "Eating of the tree of knowledge is a symbolic expression for
> incorporating
> into the self the ability for self-creation. This is the ONLY sense in
> which God and His souls are NOT co-creators."
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> This says God and His souls differ in that the souls are not
> self-creating,
> which implies God is.
Maybe a different approach can clarify.
God is Cause and the Son Effect:
"Effects do not CREATE their cause, but they
ESTABLISH its causation. Thus the Son gives
fatherhood to his Creator, and RECEIVES the
gift that he has given Him. It is BECAUSE he
is God's Son that he must ALSO be a father,
who creates as God created him."
"Effects do not CREATE their cause"
refutes the whole idea of "self-creation"
of the Souls.
What man himself can "create" (make) is
an image of himself; his own father the ego.
> If He isn't, what defines the nature of God? Is God
> unconditioned?
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