EnderWiggin Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 If one takes a story, then rewrites many major points of the plot; is it not in conclusion a different story to the original? Plagiarised, yes, but all the same different. "Christian God" is no different to "Allah" or "Yahweh", it is a different name for a different character in a different story: it's like dividing the character of Faust into "Marlowe's Doctor Faustus" and "Goethe's Faust". Would you argue that it is arrogant to divide the character of Faust so? Ooooh. Good analogy. _EW_ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonathan7 Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 Surely you recognise that in Christianity - as in Judaism and Islam - God is supposed to have been Christian all along. Is it suddenly arrogant to believe that other religions are simply not true? In truth, I thought that was a major standing point of all world religions. If one takes a story, then rewrites many major points of the plot; is it not in conclusion a different story to the original? Plagiarised, yes, but all the same different. "Christian God" is no different to "Allah" or "Yahweh", it is a different name for a different character in a different story: it's like dividing the character of Faust into "Marlowe's Doctor Faustus" and "Goethe's Faust". Would you argue that it is arrogant to divide the character of Faust so? Ooooh. Good analogy. _EW_ Indeed, a very good post nine.roses, and infact all your posts in KC have been very good. What a strange question this is. Do we? Our conceptions what is God are rather different. To use the term "the Christian God" seems to me to be the same as saying "the Christian understanding of monotheistic deity", as opposed, say, to Osiris Wennefer, Vishnu, or Iuppiter Optimus Maximus. Aye, which is why I had answered yes and no to Jae's point C question. I have no clue what you're trying to say here. What, precisely, is the 'Christian Box'? I think Jae (and I maybe wrong here) is trying to say Christians often put God in a nice box of what he can and can't do, and what he does and doesn't do. Which is all abit limited to their preconceptions and denominational spectrum, however it is written... Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. That doesn't at least to me, seem the kind of God you can put in a box Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnderWiggin Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 Indeed, a very good post nine.roses, and infact all your posts in KC have been very good. I concur. I think Jae (and I maybe wrong here) is trying to say Christians often put God in a nice box of what he can and can't do, and what he does and doesn't do. Which is all abit limited to their preconceptions and denominational spectrum, however it is written... Agreed. A nice little package. That doesn't at least to me, seem the kind of God you can put in a box But we both know that won't stop them from trying _EW_ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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