I'm just experimenting. I hate the word "blog" and am fascinated with how the net seems to nurture *everyone's* vanity.
dedicated to Evil Stormbringer and Wheeloffire
Published on January 17, 2007 By Philocthetes In Off-Topic
Evil did me right by starting his own thread on the "what's a thief" question. But a few posts later in that Grammar nazi sprawl thread, QuietlyObserving says "If we are to be a society founded on the Rule of Law, it would be prudent to maintain a healthy respect for language and the meaning of words, lest we slip into a dictatorship of unelected Judges."

This gives me a painfully beautiful opportunity to start a sister thread to Evil's, and ask you all to sink your fangs, fingers, etc., into the basic question "How does a law rule without a human to interpret and/or execute it?"

That's my latest hasty attempt at a longstanding interest in the gov't-of-law-and-not-men notion that's very popular here in the US. I've also known a few linguists and flirted with other philosphies enough to be taken aback by anyone who has too much certainty about the meaning of a particular word or phrase.

Unless you're a minor with parents who don't want you seeing PG-13 movies (I know we have some sharp youth out there, just want to respect your folks), I suggest finding and playing fword.wav before you finish a reply here.
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on Jan 23, 2007
one thing in the bible new or old testiments

you cannot find any place where god says that he is perfect

christ says god is perfect

and the prophets do

but god does not say it
on Jan 23, 2007
you cannot find any place where god says that he is perfect


You won't find any place in the bible that says people have adrenal glands either. Does that mean adrenal glands arn't real?? I don't see where your going with your point?

on Jan 23, 2007
my point is that a perfect being would not consider him/herself to be perfect

he/she would try to find some way to improve themselves

on Jan 23, 2007
You have some funny logic, danielost.

Jesus claimed that He and the Father are one.
That, if you have seen Him you have seen the Father.

Jesus raised Himself from death, just to prove the point of who and what He really is.

Seems to me, if Jesus said that God is perfect, there is no reason to doubt that God is perfect.
on Jan 23, 2007
then who abanden him when he was on the cross

and

who was he asking to take the cup from him in the olive grove

and when he said my father's house who was he talking about


one more thing

you and your wife(those of you who are married) when you speak do you not usually speak as one

and i believe christ also said that he and the father were as one

god is not human

christ is

and i did not say that god was not perfect

I SAID THAT A PERFECT BEING WOULD NOT CONSIDER HIMSELF TO BE PERFECT
on Jan 23, 2007
my point is that a perfect being would not consider him/herself to be perfect

he/she would try to find some way to improve themselves



But you carn't put forward such a concept without more information on your reasoning? I mean, give me somthing to work with here?

on Jan 23, 2007
A perfect being would know perfectly well that they were perfect, and to consider Himself to be imperfect would be a form of false humility (itself an imperfection), and it would be lying to Himself as to His own perfection (another imperfection - lying).

So a perfect being would have to consider Himself to be perfect.



John 10:30 I and my Father are one.


He did not say 'as one'.

Christians, for the most part, consider Jesus to be God. So in that respect, God is human because Jesus is fully human as well as being fully God.
on Jan 23, 2007
A perfect being would know perfectly well that they were perfect, and to consider Himself to be imperfect would be a form of false humility (itself an imperfection), and it would be lying to Himself as to His own perfection (another imperfection - lying).


I would agree with this but i am still intrigued by danielost's concept. I would love to know what reasoning gave him the idea?
on Jan 23, 2007
if jesus is god then who abandend him when he was on the cross he couldn't have abandend himself

there is one way to improve yourself if you are perfect and that would be through your children and since we are all gods children and he wants us to be perfect as he is
on Jan 23, 2007
God is Father, Holy Spirit, and Son.
Jesus is the Son part of that Trinity.

And we are not all children of God in the same way that Jesus is the Son of God.
Jesus is the only begotten Son of God.
on Jan 23, 2007
All this talk of God being perfect, of people saying it is. I mean do we even know if this creator has feelings, emotions, wants, need, pereceptions, conceptions, anything at all? I think that whatever created had to have somekind of emotional motivation, and it also had to feel attachment to us, and the planet to keep making sure he was respected as the guiding being. I mean that would automatically mean he wasnt perfect, we dont know how much knowledge the Creator has, meaning that most of its decisions are guided by emotion alone. We can see that most of the time it is kind and generous to us humans. But, we can never know who it is that is truely speaking God, or the Church. I mean if God loves us all why do we have wars, conflicts, starvation, manipulation, suffering? Why doesnt he stop all of the carnage that his preachers cause, all the conflict that they inspire. Sure some of them want peace, but a lot want peace under their religion. That is quete a disturbing idea, isnt it?

Now as for mothers having more or less love for an infant, that is objective. We can not measure love, and love is not considered to be a character trait by any psychologist. It is an emotion, and emotions are hard to classify. Many times even kindness is only the cause of reaction formation and the morals of todays society. Many parents only care about their children because that is what is socially accepted, or they feel guilty from blaming the child for things that happened in relation to birth.

Lastly, there are over a billion diffrent species on this planet, at least that. I dont expect that from the small number carried on the Ark that many evolved in the corse of a few hundred thousand years. Its an impossibility, plus how did they than have time to spread themselves so perfectly around the world map? What explanations would then exist for places like the Galapocos(sp?) or Australia?

As for whether or not Adam and Eve were immortal, i would have no clue on what to contribute here. There is just not enough in my theological teachings to provide and answer or debate here.
on Jan 23, 2007
of course we are not

we were created by god but christ was conceaved of god

and to make things even more confussing christ is the god of the old testiment

but he is not the god of heaven read revelations

god and the lamb of god are seen in the same place at the same time

the lamb of god is christ
on Jan 23, 2007
if jesus is god then who abandend him when he was on the cross he couldn't have abandend himself

there is one way to improve yourself if you are perfect and that would be through your children and since we are all gods children and he wants us to be perfect as he is


Ah ic ic, yes your concept has merrit in a certain sense. What we can say about God as a perfect being is that he 'seeks'. I mean your touching on the whole meaning of life here.... God created us and gave us a free will so that we could freely choose to love him, this is what God seeks, this is the meaning of life!

As for Jesus on the cross, may i put forward a new concept... Jesus at that moment was not God because he was 'us'.
on Jan 23, 2007
As for Christ rising from the dead, i dont think it happened. I think that his corpse was moved by his followers to a safer place and from that a more exagerated tale evolved by word of mouth. We have little known writing about these events, and details are schetchy.
on Jan 23, 2007
what i think is that as adam and eve had before they ate of the fruit so did christ

ie daily contact with god with two exceptions the 40 days and 40 nights and the cross

thus the last temptation of christ was when he was on the cross
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