Blasphemous Question

[Babs]

Shouldn't this be in the five word thread?

not really.

[il Padrino Ute]

Well, there you have it.

Shouldn't this be in the five word thread?

[Babs]

Blasphemy? I suppose if you are a really uptight person.

Well, there you have it.

[All-American]

On the other hand, if he hadn't given them every opportunity to receive every blessing he seems to want to give, he isn't being very just.

[pellegrino]

I've often thought about this too.....and things like, why does it take a divine person to come down and show us mortals how to do it, even though we're commanded to be like God. We don't have the constant ministering of angels. We haven't been groomed for perfection from day one. We're not the first copy of the Father. So much about why we need a Savior due to God's theopneustianly-hinted at, but philosophically improbable (with a nod to Gersonides), omniscience and our free will, doesn't add up.

I agree with Solon, there's so much we don't know, and he does a lousy job of explaining himself.

I don't know, maybe it's that we do a bad job of understanding, or better, we're really incapable of understanding. I kind of get the feeling that those luminaries in this world (and I use that term purposefully) who get more than the average glimpse of the numen are simply incapable of accurately describing it and those who are trying to understand are just as ill equipped for that particular task.

You put ten people through the same experience and they'd all describe it differently simply because they experienced it differently. I kind of feel like that's the way it will always be - flashes, glimpses, that are related in an imperfect manner which makes it that much easier for those that hear it to misunderstand.

[Moliere]

This is closer to what I have read - that forty was a sort of default number in the culture. Kind of like we would use a hundred or a million, I guess. It isn't meant to be precise; it's meant to evoke a sense of scale. When you wanted to give the sense that a king or judge reigned a really long time, you would say, "And he reigned for forty years."

So perhaps it's not likely that all these seminal events involved exactly forty days, or exactly forty years. But it's still interesting that the Hebrews such an odd number (to us) as their benchmark.

In French the equivalent is to say "36" or "trente-six" to denote a really long time or a lot of something.

[Portland Ute]

I always hated that song. Blasphemy, bad grammar, and a whiny lead singer...does it get any worse?

Blasphemy? I suppose if you are a really uptight person.

Otherwise, as a laid back Mormon missionary in Europe, you might actually hear that on a bus, be the only one that understand the lyrics and thinks, 'Hey, somebody else believes in that 'man is as God once way' stuff."

As for the bad grammar and the winy lead singer, I have no comment.

[Babs]

What if God was one of us?
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make his way home

I always hated that song. Blasphemy, bad grammar, and a whiny lead singer...does it get any worse?

[RobinFinderson]

What if God was one of us?
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make his way home

Thou hast said.

[Rosebud]

Jesus is just like me on CUF.

LOL!

[Surfah]

Jesus is just like me on CUF.

What if God was one of us?
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make his way home

[Solon]

No kidding. I like the enigma that is Solon.

[Babs]

Who says he needs to explain himself?

No kidding. I like the enigma that is Solon.

[RobinFinderson]

Ask a blasphemous question, get a blasphemous answer.

Forgive DU Ute, for he knows not what he does.

[Jarid in Cedar]

I agree with Solon, there's so much we don't know, and he does a lousy job of explaining himself.

Who says he needs to explain himself?