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Re: Why did you vote for Obama? [message #362184 is a reply to message #362177] Tue, 09 December 2008 10:40 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Spoony wrote on Tue, 09 December 2008 11:57

You sound more like a deist than a theist to me... so what do you think the 'god' actually is? What's his (if it's applicable to call him a he) actual nature, and where did he come from?

I probably don't need to point this out to you (although any Christian reading this could use reminding), although even if it were somehow proven that everything was set in motion by some kind of superbeing, it wouldn't mean it was Yahweh (or vindicate anything the Bible said) any more than it would mean it was the tooth fairy or the flying spaghetti monster or a giant yellow lobster called Jeremy.

I'm not entirely sure what I think it is. At this point, I kind of picture the being as a guy obsessed with toy trains. Sometimes the guy interferes with his creation and at other times just leaves it alone. I have had too many close calls and coincidences for them to just be coincidences.

As for where he came from... I haven't the faintest clue. Maybe the spiritual world can affect the physical world, but the physical world can't affect the spiritual world. Since we can't test the spiritual world, the inner workings is completely unknown to us because we can't tap into their world. I don't know.

Oh, exactly. That's why I'm no longer a Christian and have settled into just basic theism. It's human nature to want to put a face on everything, and this is no different. It just seems absolutely silly to me to say with certainty that this "identity" is the correct one, especially because some book, written over 1500 years ago, says so.


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