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To: muawiyah

So you sound New Age. (not Christian in the true sense) Is God everything to you?


23 posted on 01/27/2011 7:04:04 PM PST by fish hawk (reporter to old Indian: you lived here on the reservation all your life? Old Indian, "not yet".)
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To: fish hawk
Having knowledge of other beliefs doesn't make you a "NEW AGE" type.

At the same time I am firmly of the belief that God enables us to examine the entirety of our environment ~ so that we can have DOMINION OVER IT. That includes the various dimensions ~ both those visible and those invisible, the great, the small, the fields that permeate the Universe, and even the dimensions that may extend into the areas beyond this Universe.

I find it more than a koinkydink that the ancients appear to have intuited certain elements of profound knowledge of existence without the ability to directly observe those elements.

Give you an example. Abram looked out on the night sky and saw the local galaxy, only he didn't really see it, and couldn't perceive, that all he could see were 25,000 stars or star-like points ~ and without the ability to judge depth at the vast distances, he'd had no idea that those stars had a meaning transcending chasing sheep and goats on a grassy plain in Mesopotamia.

It is only in our time that we know the vast distances from here to Uranus ~ otherwise invisible to the Ancients, and the far vaster distances to the next star, or from here to the center of the local Galaxy, or the incomprehensible distances out to the "edge" where everything just falls off into invisibility.

We are the first people in history to have a shot at seeing everything, and yet Abram intuited that there was but one God ~ of course God gave him some hints in that business of banning human sacrifice. Still even as he was renamed Abraham he did not know anything of the enormous vastness of the Universe that we know, and now we see God's Creation with new eyes, and we should be most respectful ~ even fearful. His Domain is greater beyond even that tidy little 13.8 billion lightyears we can see (in any direction).

24 posted on 01/27/2011 7:33:54 PM PST by muawiyah
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