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On 3/19/2012 1:56 PM, DAVID STOCKHOFF wrote:
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<blockquote>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>
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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>
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Yeah. I would say it is equally true of the OT and the NT God. <br>
The OT creates the Earth and the sun, moon, stars and light itself.
Yet, he has personal conversations with Moses and Abraham. The NT
God is just an extrapolation of that as described in the gospel of
John and Paul's letter to the Colossians.<br>
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Also, are there any examples of an impersonal finite god? Or would
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That's a good question. Big Dumb Object is an interesting term for
it. An impersonal finite god would be a god drained of everything
worthy of worship.<br>
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J.<br>
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