John W Burgeson wrote:
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> David wrote:
> I still reject your assertion that Griffin (or me) finding something
> terribly wrong with the Lisbon earthquake event has anything at all with
> "making a deity in our own image." The obvious fact that either of us --
> and you too, would have "done things differently" simply points out that
> the event is an inconsistency. An apparent inconsistency, we Christians
> must argue. But an inconsistency for all that.
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The human mind, as Calvin noted, is a factory of idols. They are
not, however, all idols which we create in our own image, as may be the case
with some versions of limited deities. There are also the idols we create in
the image of the kind of God we would want to be if we were God. Some
versions of timeless deities who exercise absolute power & are incapable of
suffering fall in this category.
Shalom,
George
George L. Murphy
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
"The Science-Theology Interface"
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