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Old 2nd September 2008, 06:14 PM
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God's Riddle

"'Can God make a rock so big even He can't lift it?'
I wonder if that's the wrong question. I wonder if the right question is: Can God make a puzzle so difficult, a riddle so complex, that even He can't solve it? What if that's us? ~ J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5


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Old 2nd September 2008, 06:42 PM
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"'Can God make a rock so big even He can't lift it?'
I wonder if that's the wrong question. I wonder if the right question is: Can God make a puzzle so difficult, a riddle so complex, that even He can't solve it? What if that's us? ~ J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5


What do you think?

For that to be possible, then that something that God created would have to be different/separate from God. I do not believe it works that way. A puzzle made by God would simply be a manifestation of God and could not/would not be any different, nor larger, nor smaller, nor more complex, nor less simple.
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Sounds like the "what is the sound of one hand clapping" kind of question.
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Since I do not consider the gods to be omniscient (nor omnipotent, nor omnipresent, nor any of the other baggage that monotheism inherited from philosophical speculation), I can't bite on that one.

I do not think the gods created us, any more than they created themselves. That we may puzzle them does not strike me as a surprising thing, therefore.
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"'Can God make a rock so big even He can't lift it?'
I wonder if that's the wrong question. I wonder if the right question is: Can God make a puzzle so difficult, a riddle so complex, that even He can't solve it? What if that's us? ~ J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5


What do you think?

Well, the first thing that comes to my mind is: what would be the point?

I tend to agree with Chaitanyananda. I think there is a state of Oneness, and we only imagine that we (or anything else) could be separate from it.
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Well, the first thing that comes to my mind is: what would be the point?

I tend to agree with Chaitanyananda. I think there is a state of Oneness, and we only imagine that we (or anything else) could be separate from it.


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You will find that Perfection is simple
It needs no complication because it simply is Perfect.

Taken from the Introduction to ACIM:


This is a course in miracles. 2 It is a required course. 3 Only the time you take it is voluntary. 4 Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum. 5 It means only that you can elect what you want to take at a given time. 6 The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. 7 It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love's presence, which is your natural inheritance. 8 The opposite of love is fear, but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite.

T-in.2. This course can therefore be summed up very simply in this way:




2 Nothing real can be threatened.

3 Nothing unreal exists.




4 Herein lies the peace of God.
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The problems posed in the OP sound a lot like the ones posed by medieval scholasticism..

Can God make two hills without an intervening valley..

How many angels can stand on the point of a pin..

What happens when a mouse eats a consecrated host?

and other hallowed enigmas..

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"What if that's us?" - Well, even if he didn't intend to he seems to have succeeded.


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Greetings. My answer would be no.Because the Father is not the author of confusion.So be it.
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