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Re: Talk about a self-fulfilling prophecy...
Posted By: Paul A., on host 206.135.142.18
Date: Monday, February 12, 2001, at 18:55:26
In Reply To: Re: Talk about a self-fulfilling prophecy... posted by Darien on Saturday, February 10, 2001, at 12:57:48:

> the fundamental problem with the theodical question is that it presumes a situation
> in which man can judge God - or, even more basically, a situation in which God can be
> defined by (and therefore restricted by) human terms and ideas. God is, as theologians are
> wont to say, "wholly other." Man does not and *cannot* understand God.

That sounds like an argument against organised religion to me.

If God is wholly other and we *cannot* understand him, what are we to make of all these people in funny hats who claim to know what God is like?

Paul

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