Re: [asa] Reply to Glenn

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> What God communicates and what I am capable of receiving are two quite
> different things. In this respect, I quote Nat Hawthorne: "So long as an
> unlettered soul can attain to saving grace, there would seem to be no
> deadly error in holding theological libraries to be accumulations of, for
> the most part, stupendous impertinence."
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Burgy -

Hawthorne's statement is a vast oversimplification to the point of simply
being false. There would be some truth if it were amended to "So long as an
unlettered soul can attain to saving grace _and there is noinfluences in the
world tending to mislead such souls_ ..." But then the statement would not
refer to the real world.

Secondly, this claim assumes that there is no value at all in understanding
what we believe beyond what an "unlettered soul" is capable of. I.e., as
far as religion is concerned we ought to blow our brains out. There is no
warrant at all for this in scripture. We are to love God with all our
heart, soul, MIND & strength. A childlike faith need not be a childish
faith.

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/

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Received on Sat Jun 17 12:36:29 2006