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Old 07-08-2007, 06:45 PM
FourthTrumpet
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Some closing thoughts from me on what I was saying in my last post..

My position is that God's existence is so far beyond our mortal experience that we cannot possible comprehend or describe it in any meaningful way. When pre-school age cannot imagine what it is like to be an adult and go to work every day, to worry about money, to have a fear of rejection or ridicule,
etc...it seems pointless trying to explain it all to them - they just cannot understand it. Similarly, when dealing with people from pre-modern villages in
3rd world countries, many simply cannot comprehend what it is like to live here in the 1st world. Many grasp that we have a higher standard of living,
but they don't understand that all of one's paycheck often immediately goes to paying a mortgage, credit card bills, taxes, etc - with no real surplus
for savings. they cannot understand that, because it is so foreign to their experience. If I assume for a moment that the universe has two types of
beings - three-fold beings and monophysite beings (like us) - I would assume that the beings with a single existence would never be able to fathom or
adequately describe the threefold existence of the other type of being. It would be impossible. Could a hypothetical 2-D stickman comprehend a 3-D pencil from our dimension going through the paper he lives on? First he'll see a little dot of lead that has a wood grained circle growing around it - eventually briefly by an eraser, etc. So how can one not roll their eyes when I hear people argue about this?

It's vanity.

The tabernacle God had Israel construct on earth was a shadow and did not do the real tabernacle in Heaven any justice. Nor did Paul consider the examples about how a dead husband frees the wife from the marriage contract to be perfect - yet it was the best example given out limited perspective to begin to wrap our heads around things.

Hope that helps.
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