"It may sound funny, but by choosing to create us in His image - as free beings - God gave up the choice of revealing Himself to us. If we had definitive proof of God's existence, there would no longer be any need for an act of faith - of choosing to believe. We would no longer be free. God would be no longer a mystery, but rather a known entity, the Big Boss."
So we have a limitless god with limits.
I'm still hung up on choice, the idea that we are free, that we can choose. Anything. Of course it feels like I can choose, and my life goes better if I believe and act AS IF I can choose (I spent some time checking that one out). Still, it strikes me that a free choice requires some spark of causeless effect. I've run into effects, the cause of which I am unsure, but never anything I could pin down as causeless. Without that, anything I choose seems to be the result of the sum of all previous parts. This puzzles me.
ARS
Edit: Besides, politics has gone into its boring phase. I really like the article Bill posted contrasting conservatism with capitalism. Copied and emailed it to myself.
Further edit: Then this song comes up on Pandora.
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Lyric in there I like "I ain't no dog tied to no parked car"
Maybe, maybe not. |
