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

To: briskit who wrote (13108)	7/27/2002 10:17:17 PM
From: Bill Fischofer	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 28931

There are consequences to every decision and every action. If there were not, then it would be impossible to experience choice. There is only one ultimate question: "Who Am I?". The only meaningful answer to that question is life lived. Thus the only reason to say or do anything is as a statement to the universe of Who We Are and Who We Choose to Be. Consequences are what permit us to know ourselves experientially, and it is in this sense that life must be pointless to have any meaning. For each of us continually creates the answer to that question with our every thought, word, and deed. If the answer were predetermined then life would indeed be pointless. Thus is the paradox of free choice made manifest in our experience. Consider therefore that Life/Love/God is the unbounded process of creating, living, and experiencing the full glory of this answer. God is the eternal process of God becoming God, which is why the name God gives Himself in the Old Testament is Yahweh--"I Am That I Am", which some translate to the more revealing "I Am That Which I Shall Be".

To: briskit who wrote (13108)	7/30/2002 6:31:07 PM
From: Frederick Smart	Respond to of 28931

The point to the universe.... >>>>If it were not pointless there would be no freedom and one cannot be free if there is an exogenous purpose to reality, for life is a process of creation, not discovery.>>>> >>I like what I think I got from your thoughts-gg. But this sentence is not clear to me. Are you saying that life is not discovery? What is the comparison between creation and discovery in relation to life? I am not sure that pointlessness and freedom are related in this way. You are saying that if there is a point then determinism naturally follows? It seems to me that if there is a god which does have some point in all this, we are obviously free to do what we want at the same time. Maybe you are taking the data and concluding then that there must be no point because everything that humans can imagine is believed, even lived out, and there are no apparent "ultimate" consequences?>> ....is the Lord's infinite unconditional love. This love knows no boundaries, lables, limitations, restrictions or conditions. For it's infinite. And, being infinite, it therefor cannot be claimed. Love is the essence, the cornerstone of FREEDOM and all his creation! Peace and God Bless! 119293!!