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Of course, we can't rule out the idea that God did maesnfit Himself. Ever since Plato at least, if not earlier, we have been trying to abstract God out of the physical realm or alternatively, we've wanted to immanentize the eschaton. Naturalists want to ascribe Godlike powers to nature while pantheists want to see God in nature. Why do we have to presume that we know what really happened? Wouldn't the truly scientific approach be to suspend disbelief as well as belief? Didn't electricity, gravity and magnetism exist for millennia before we got around to figuring them out? Maybe God did reveal himself through the words of the prophets in the Old Testament and validate these prophecies in the Incarnation. Which posture is closed minded and which one is open-minded? The one that denies all possibility of transcendence or the one that accepts that there may be more to existence?Even if Jesus were not the Son of God, who could ask for a finer choice to be God? Who would not want our God to be a God of love? a God of life? Who would not want our God to be a teacher, a healer, a redeemer? Would God have somehow been more credible if he had been born a prince and ruled as a God King like pharaoh? Most of the Roman Emperors were deified, that did not make them so. How much more powerful to be born so poor that his crib was a manger, his profession a carpenter, and yet he was able to endure and transcend everything.I think the folks who trash Jesus should open up their minds and give him a second look. At the least, they should respect him.
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(VISITOR) AUTHOR'S NAME
Blanche
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