| Subject: | [socialcredit] Douglas and immanence | | Date: | Thursday, September 1, 2005 13:12:33 (EDT) | | From: | Triumphofthepast <Triumphofthepast @...com>
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"Man is always in the process of completing himself. This is why our knowledge is always incomplete, and the reason for an immanent God." (Jim)
Douglas affirms an immanent God negatively as follows: "Jewish Policy is what Christianity is not. . . . The Philosophy from which it proceeds is that of non-immanent Sovereignty" ("Whose Service Is Perfect Freedom," p. 39).*
To this compare: "The conception of the exteriorization of force (like the exteriorization of Divinity) is quite modern" (Big Idea, p. 63)
However: "The human mind has no way of obtaining the truth. . . . The Truth enters time and shows us the way towards the Truth." (Jim)
This seems to say something completely different from the above. A transcendent God incarnate (Truth entering time) is not at all the same thing as an immanent God. In addition, Truth entering time doesn't solve the problem, since we still have to have that in ourselves which recognizes the Truth.
Michael
*I am confident this title is an example of Douglas sarcasm.
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