<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> James Wynn <crushtv@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> The Urth Mailing List <urth@lists.urth.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, March 19, 2012 2:14 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: (urth) Oannes<br> </font> </div> <br>On 3/18/2012 11:04 PM, Lee Berman wrote:<br>> Given that The Outsider never incarnates into a material form, I would guess<br>> that he is at a higher level than Tzadkiel. But is the Outsider imbued in<br>> every person and everything,
everywhere across all time and all universes?<br>> I get the sense he is more limited than that (though he has potential).<br><br>Well, given that the Outsider asserted that all powers that pretend to be gods will (in some way) tend to become Him specifically, then, yes, he *does* seem to imbue all matter.<br>This is a paradox that (I think it was) CS Lewis pointed out regarding worldwide religions and religious sects based on the God of the Bible (including Islam and LDS): In other world religions God is either impersonal and infinite or personal and finite. The God of the Bible, he says, is both infinite and person. The Outsider-as-Increate is a very Bible-oriented deity.<br>___________________________________<br>Does that make him a syncretistic combination of East (impersonal infinite, e.g, Buddhism) and West (personal finite, e.g., Thor)? Or is this equally true of the OT as it is of the NT?<br><br>Also, are there any examples of an impersonal
finite god? Or would that just be a BDO?<br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>