MB>  It may not be fruitfully debated, lest that Consciente Majoris take 
 MB>  part.  "'Come, let us reason together', saith the Lord."  He wasn't 
 MB>  inviting us to reason amongst ourselves, He wants to be in on our 
 MB>  reasoning, helping to enlighten our eyes.  I really do believe that 
 MB>  the better we see the universe, the more enlightened our eyes become. 
 MB>  And that those that bury their understanding in human reasoning alone 
 MB>  are making a mistake.  What other understanding is there than human 
 MB>  reasoning?  The understanding that _is_, that which knows already  
 MB>  what we do not yet know. 
What lead me away from Christianity was the lack of reason, and a 
failure to respond to paradox by saying that it just was the will 
of God.  A God who condemns to hell, yet is merciful, a God who's 
omnipotent but yet I have a free will, and the existence of evil, 
all paint an irrational view of God. 
 
To say that we do not understand him may be, but it might be also, 
that God is rational, and does not choose to condemn, or choose to 
exercise his will here, so that we may, and sacrificed perfection, 
so that we might be individuals and not perfect angels. 
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