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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (307666)	10/13/2002 8:34:15 AM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

The idea of caps reflects my own personal recognition of God's awesomeness... you would certainly show respect to your boss at work, and you would show even greater respect to the President of a country... how much greater respect can you show to the One who Created our very reality? I'm still not sure what you mean by a personal God since you still didn't define it.. but, if you mean something like a "friend" as in the phrase "a friend in Jesus," then I will tell you no... how can anyone be "friends" with the Creator Himself? I think God cares about all individuals, but there are no favorites here... But if they are within everyday life and are not philosophical they must be scientifically valid to be proof. Science is it's own religion, along with its own rituals of methodology... science can't answer or explain everything, science is limited to the physical realm... but, yes, it can be proven and validated by careful and close observation within our own personal lives... this was my point in the very start of our conversation... The Judeo-Christian bible teaches that man was specially created, in God's image. Animals were not. Also man did not evolve. Do you subscribe to this? I though we were going to refrain from biblical references... but my observations show me that man has attributes of each of the animals, i.e., sly as a fox and so on... by the way, you put those religions in caps, and certainly out of respect for a proper noun and proper name... "In God's image" the word "image" is misleading... yes, each of us has spiritual attributes that are a likeness to God's... these attributes do not exist within the animal realm... these attributes include, but are not limited to, kindness, charity, as well as severity and the exercise of free will in general... within the animal realm, instinct drives behavior... a simple example here: a hungry lion with a prey in front of him wouldn't say to himself, "Oh, I'm on a diet, I think I'll just not hunt for food today," we both know that lion would hunt and kill that prey for food, they fight among themselves for the meat and the cubs are the last to eat... humankind behaves differently, and we are the only creatures that know to act accordingly, we're not driven by instinct although we might sense our instinctive impulses on occasion, but we can rule our impulses, emotions, and behaviors... That's a philosophical point unless you have scientific proof that a god existed before the big bang. I think it's far more than a philosophical point, here's why... let's give a book to a scientist to analyze... he can tell you everything about the book, how many pages the book has, the kind of ink used in the printing of the book, the type of paper used in putting that book together, the age of the book, the binding and the glue that holds it together, and so on... but he can't tell you or prove to you the book exists... our reality is like that book, the fact that God exists prior to any beginning can be clearly demonstrated by a close examination of our individual lives and not by external physical facts separate from ourselves... If I understand you correctly regarding the blueprint question, no, I'm not referring to a predetermined fatalistic notion at all, it's totally up to Johnny to make that shot... we have free will... this free will, in part, is what separates us from all the other animals... GZ