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Re: UNBOWED Is Goth as FUCK!
by Arthegarn on Aug 08, 2001 - 10:08 AM
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Let's see. We are all God? God is everywhere but that does not mean he is everything. In latin, and in most latin languages, there is a difference that there is not in English within the verb to be. There are two separate verbs, one meaning "to be at a place" and another meaning "to be this way". So, when we say god is everywhere it just means It shares the place with something, not that It IS that thing.
God is omnipresent, meaning that he is everywhere. But he is not just omnis, meaning he is everything. Everything shares the existance of God, just as everything created in an RPG shares the existence of the Game Master, but it does not mean that the PCs are the Master.
I share my existence with God, but I am a separate entity. When I love God, I can love the part of God there is in me, or love God through me, but It and me are not the same, so i can not love and serve It by loving and serving me.
As for the Church... that would require a separate rant. Being a Roman Catholic I also get a lot of shit because people's misconception or misinformation about the Church, or by them going over the same bloody hystorical issues now and again, moreover in a country such as Spain which has lived under the so-called Franco's Church influence for 40 years.
Last, but not least... The concept of fear to god, it is an ancient way of expressing respect, awe. Remember Hebrew is an extremely poor language, badly tranlsated to both Greek and Latin as these languages have much more precise concepts. It's like that anecdote about Japanese that it has a single word meaning "sound made by an animal" which obviously encompasses barking, meowing, croaking, buzzing, shrieking... So don't take the bible too literally or you'll end up lapidating your neighbour...XD
As for the rest, I praise your tolerance.
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