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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Chris land who wrote (3768)	12/1/2000 3:38:44 PM
From: Druss	Respond to of 28931

Bishop--<<God had said, For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my way higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. -Isaiah The only possible solution is for us to line ourselves up to God's thinking or else we will always be in error.>> Those are completely contradictory statements. How can we line ourselves to God's way of thinking when his thoughts are not ours and are so much higher? You also have some fan mail: "Just curious... Maybe someone will pass it on since I am on igore Do you really think that God can't make it without you? Alpha and Omega... and he needs you out here pissing people off by acting as a petite god. No, my friend...what you do, you do for yourself. Not for God. No way. You do it to massage a god complex. A little persecution by the 'godless'...does it matter if you go seeking it. You ain't him. No matter how you agitate people to feed your martyr complex, ain't no one but you gonna believe it. You are looking for a warped, religion-base hard-on. Nothing more....because God will take care of Him/Her/Itself without your help. Definitely....what you do...you do for you. PERIOD. But if the attention makes you feel better...imagine that you are a martyr. And I am on ignore...just as well. I know what you ARE.... lee But you are only fooling yourself..... Thankfully, I am on igore, You hypocritical pissant, lee " Druss

To: Chris land who wrote (3768)	12/1/2000 3:46:31 PM
From: Mitch Blevins	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

Thanks for your answer, Chris. Your examples helped to clear this up for me. Let me paraphrase you to see if our understanding still matches: God is Good by definition. But our understanding of Good is flawed by our limited minds. For example, we had no way of realizing that the man crossing the street was really an evil banker. The best way to mitigate our error in determining what is Good or not is to try to position ourselves closer to God (through scripture, personal revelation, etc). Am I close? But this also leaves me in a quandry. If my innate sense of "goodness" is flawed, how can I recognize what and where God is so that I can bring myself more in line with Him? I am in a Catch-22 because I need to be in line with God to recognize Goodness, but I can only discern God from not-God by this goodness-recognition. Personal revelation is not productive unless I can recognize the source of that revelation, as opposed to the many other voices in my head. The Scriptures can be treated as authoritative, but which scriptures should I choose? The Koran? The Bible? The Upanishads? Dianetics? How am I to know or discern which one comes from God/Good unless I already have that innate sense of goodness that I was striving for in the first place?