In article <2VwNj.3244$ob2.2366@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, B says...
>On Apr 13, 5:29=A0pm, rtdav...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>> I'm not really trying to stress hell and judgment over love, but
>> i'll say it again; unless we understand our condition- that we are
>> sinners and are separated from God because of that sin, we cannot
>> see the greatness of his love and the salvation he offers. strip
>> that away and all God becomes is a benevolent grandpa that sort of
>> smiles on what we do.
>B - God is all..
Wrong, and even very wrong. This terribly wrong opinion of yours,
Bren, shows how very far you are from _all_ forms of Christianity.
>God is within and surrounding us all.
Ah, but this is very different. This part is true. What a pity then,
you always insist on using this truth as an excuse to believe such an
anti-truth!
>..how can anyone be separated from God except in their minds?
Why, by their sins, of course. Such as professing Pantheism.
>To say that we are separate from God states that God is limited.
No, it does not. Will you say that it 'limits' God to say that God
does not create a stone too heavy for him to move it? It is no more of
a limit to say that sin separates men from God.
>If we are away from God..then where are we?
'Away' and 'separate' are not the same.
>if God is everywhere and created everything...then how can one be
>away from God?
Easily. By embracing Pantheism.
>I think we can believe the lie of separation and the illusion of
>it..but I don't believe it is truth.
>The light of God is in all....
If "the light of God is in all", then why are you still in such
darkness?
>our own egos and fears deny this because we have overidentified with
>the creation and not the creator.
Since you confuse the created, namely, yourself and what is within
yourself, with God, the uncreated. it is you who are still
"overidentifying with creation".
Every Pantheist is "overidentifying with creation".
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Subducat se sibi ut haereat Deo
Quidquid boni habet tribuat illi a quo factus est
(Sanctus Aurelius Augustinus, Ser. 96)
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