Nightlion wrote:Christ did not appear in America until after the destruction of the more wicked part of them. I postulate God visiting us as we are. The juxtaposition of the four variant reactions mandate that none can respect any of the others without compromising the value of their own. Right?
We have:
Positive Almost positive Almost negative Negative.
I think everyone knows exactly where they are by taking the least amount of thought.
Anyone what to change their reaction? Wondering how?
Silly me, I forgot about the destruction. But can't the pure love of God affect even the baddest of us? I just want to believe that it would. I can't put myself into any of your categories.
The person who is certain and who claims divine warrant for his certainty belongs now to the infancy of our species. Christopher Hitchens
Faith does not give you the answers, it just stops you asking the questions. Frater
Nightlion wrote:Christ did not appear in America until after the destruction of the more wicked part of them. I postulate God visiting us as we are. The juxtaposition of the four variant reactions mandate that none can respect any of the others without compromising the value of their own. Right?
We have:
Positive Almost positive Almost negative Negative.
I think everyone knows exactly where they are by taking the least amount of thought.
Anyone what to change their reaction? Wondering how?
Silly me, I forgot about the destruction. But can't the pure love of God affect even the baddest of us? I just want to believe that it would. I can't put myself into any of your categories.
I was not thinking of it as a Supreme Visit with all his glory, like I said, not here on a mission to convert or even so much to heal, just stopping by so we don't forget he exists and that is about it.
Even so, we can choose how to react. After all it IS God among us for a bit.
Carrying around a pack of shy stegosauri would have its advantages in that they could hide behind rocks when no one was looking.
A newly resurrected Ed McMahon and the cast of Cirque du Soleil would make for very dramatic entrances and produce much less background radioactivity than a nearby Supernova (too much advance preparation is needed for a truly spontaneous entrance anyway).