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to: Adam Flinton
from: Robert Comer
date: 2005-05-11 19:10:40
subject: Re: IQ this

From: "Robert Comer" 

> Nnnjjjjaaarrgggg.....Old Ratzinger would have you tied to a stake if he
> could for that.

Ratzinger doesn't have squat to say about it, I'm not a Catholic.

> You are making statements about God that presuppose knowing the mind &
> capabilities of God.

No I'm not, and I don't understand how you're reading it that way.

> Relaying the words of God (e.g. Abraham & getting circumcised etc or Moses
> & his tablets) is an entirely different thing from making statements which
> both you & Gary have made.

We weren't talking about relaying words, we were talking about God talking
to people directly.

> Even Mohammed only ever stated that he was simply the messenger of God.

Of course!

- Bob Comer


"Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
news:42827603$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Robert Comer wrote:
>>>"Christianity is full of physical pain Flinton...get used
to it..."
>>
>>
>> Life is pain. 
>>
>>>It is not your call (& nor is it Gary's) as to whether or
indeed how God
>>>speaks to anyone.
>>
>>
>> No argument from me there, that's just going from experience. (mine and
>> other current Christians.)  I have no problem if God really wanted to
>> talk with anyway, whatever his plan is his plan...
>>
>>
>>>To state that is to limit God & indeed to seek to say that
you know the
>>>mind of God & that is to invite in the boys to start making
your pyre.
>>
>>
>> Definitely not correct, just relaying current experience, not putting
>> limits on anything.  As both Gary and I said, there have been
>> exceptions...
>>
>
> Nnnjjjjaaarrgggg.....Old Ratzinger would have you tied to a stake if he
> could for that.
>
> You are making statements about God that presuppose knowing the mind &
> capabilities of God.
>
> Relaying the words of God (e.g. Abraham & getting circumcised etc or Moses
> & his tablets) is an entirely different thing from making statements which
> both you & Gary have made.
>
> Even Mohammed only ever stated that he was simply the messenger of God.
>
> Adam

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