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21st November 2006, 04:53 AM
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Does God Have To Be Perfect?
Does God have to be perfect? For that matter what is perfection? Can God be all things and nothing?
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21st November 2006, 05:26 AM
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Is a sphere any more or less perfect than a cube? No. Perpection is a perspective only. So if one chooses to see God as perfect, than it is. Otherwise, it is not.
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peace for all love for all bliss for all ...may your journey be graceful... If anything is possible, then the statement, "anything is possible," is possibly false.
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21st November 2006, 01:28 PM
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"There is one thing that organized religion is not qualified to teach and that is an individual's purpose."-GOD
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21st November 2006, 02:32 PM
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Celestial perfection...
From the Baha'i Writings:
"If a man's thought is constantly aspiring towards heavenly subjects then does he become saintly; if on the other hand his thought does not soar, but is directed downwards to centre itself upon the things of this world, he grows more and more material..." "...with the human soul, its... movement is towards perfection...Divine perfection is infinite, therefore the progress of the soul is also infinite." "Men should hold in their souls the vision of celestial perfection."
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"it benefits us to be thoughtful, not of the glory of our minds, but rather, above all else, of the glory of God." - Johannes Kepler
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21st November 2006, 02:41 PM
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I like the divine progression being infinite idea arthra! I believe the same, that is when we spend eternity with God, he will continue to teach us his awesome ways for all of eternity so we can become more like him.
Revelation 7:17 - For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. Love, Madeline
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22nd November 2006, 02:47 AM
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Perfect is an ideal, not an actual property. God is incorruptible, eternal, maximally knowledgable, and maximally powerful. No, God cannot be all things and nothing.
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21st August 2008, 08:59 PM
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I believe that our "living Godiverse" is a juvenile. It hasn't got things figured out yet, not even itself. Some would consider that imperfection.
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We do not fear the night, who have loved the stars so fondly.
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22nd August 2008, 12:42 AM
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Some people perfection include in their definition of God (in addition to perfection); so if a thing is imperfect it is not God. To those people.
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peace for all love for all bliss for all ...may your journey be graceful... If anything is possible, then the statement, "anything is possible," is possibly false.
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22nd August 2008, 03:04 PM
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Is our cosmos and Earth "perfect"? What exactly would constitute "perfect"? Why would anyone assume they're not "perfect"?
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"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."-- Einstein
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22nd August 2008, 11:22 PM
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Any being sufficiently advanced technologically would be considered a god by most of humanity.
I suspect that most of the gods of ancient times were beings who fit into this category.
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