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To: Biggirl
Put simply, false views of God’s nature can lead to religiously motivated actions, such as terrorism and violent persecution, which are contrary to the nature and will of God.

How could any mere mortal possibly know about the nature of a supernatural being or beings?
Unless of course he was approached by a supernatural being, like Muhamed was.
In which case you might have a different take on the Almighty. -Tom

5 posted on 09/11/2014 10:38:03 AM PDT by Capt. Tom (Don't confuse U.S. citizens and Americans. They are not necessarily the same. -tom)
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To: Capt. Tom

A finite being cannot know all of an infinite being, true, but the finite being can know something, in accordance with his capacity. You cannot love what you do not know, and we are meant to love God with all our hearts, so some knowledge of God is necessary. The tricky part in the past with regard to apparently conflicting theologies was some missing information that successfully explained both points of view simultaneously. Thus the great work of Aquinas, who reconciled Aristotle and Augustine, when many of St. Thomas’s contemporaries thought it impossible.

So who today would dare reconcile Christianity and Islam?


6 posted on 09/11/2014 11:21:08 AM PDT by Seraphicaviary (St. Michael is gearing up. The angels are on the ready line.)
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