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Old 05-01-2003, 02:08 PM   #71 (permalink)
Lebell
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Originally posted by Simple_Min

Well, I'm not a missionary, if that's what you're suggesting.
No, that's not what I'm suggesting.

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You asked "who said god is unknowable" and I did a little research and posted what you should have already known.


The Christian faces this dilemma: if he wishes to retain the notion of a supernatural being, he must insist that god's nature is incomprehensible. On the other hand, if the Christian wishes to escape the plight of agnosticism-which he must to give meaning to the concept of god.

The National Christian Almanac offers a list of properties of god: god is almighty, eternal, holy, immortal, incomprehensible , just, loving, omnipotent, omnipresent, ...

--George H. Smith
DUDE!

Quite worrying about quoting OTHER people! What do YOU think??

Also, incomprehensible and unknowable are two different things.
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