Re: [asa] Sunday School for Atheists...

 God doesn't violate laws.? That you would suggest that God

might violate a law you conceived is ludicrous.? God is outside

of any law and clearly allows creation to operate in all its beauty

under the inviolate authority of His laws a precious few of which

are known to us through science.?

There is no law of physics or science or reason or logic that

says the God of Abraham cannot be in the hearts of Muslims

and Christians and Jews alike,? Only the laws that men have

created, interpreted and espoused on their own generally well-

intended recognizance attempt to relegate other faiths to

damnation.?

Such laws are mere opinions compared to the laws of physics

into the solid context of which you attempt to assert your particular

interpretation of the "non-contradiction" of Christianity.? Good luck

with that.? Many have tried, few have succeeded.?

(Lucky for you, I'm one of the few who do a good job with the whole

physics context thingy!!!? (www.thegodofreason.com?; Check it out, my

man! (Surely God has a sense of humor. (What? Quit calling you

Shirley? (I digress.))))

The contradictory claims of various religions are just that, claims.?

The major religions of the world are all far and away greater institutions

than the bulk of the faithful's claims about them could ever be, both

of ours notwithstanding.

-Mike (Friend of ASA)

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From: Merv <mrb22667@kansas.net>

To: asa@calvin.edu

Sent: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 7:30 pm

Subject: Re: [asa] Sunday School for Atheists...

The law of non-contradiction is still a law -- and to say that God
violates this particular law is to insist on something that is at best,
silly.? I think Lewis dealt with this somewhere.?? We can concoct silly
questions such as:?? "If God can do anything, then can He make a rock
so big He can't lift it?"?? Embedded contradictions don't prove
anything other than that we can entertain ourselves with silliness.??
If religion A claims that X happened and religion B claims it didn't,
then they can't both be right.?? That is not the same as passing
complete judgment on both or all religions, only that contradictory
claims can't all be true (Nor will/can God force them to be true.)? To
abandon this is to abandon the only tools you and I have to even have
any such discussion as this? -- our faith that this is an orderly world
in which rational comprehension is of some value.???

--Merv

mlucid@aol.com wrote:

 Christine says:

  
> So since all religions seem to contradict each other,
> the law of non-contradiction says either all relgions
> are wrong, or only religion is right. But no one can
> be considered sane who knows this and things they
> could ALL be right.

  You're talking about God
here.? You can't say that all religions

can't be right.? If God wanted it that way, all religions could be

just fine and all true.? It is God who created a world with multiple

religions, and while I'm happy with mine, I'm happy as well that

other people are happy with theirs. ?

I surely prefer a man who is humbled by his religion than one

who is not.? The operative word again is humbled.?

-Mike (Friend of ASA)

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