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Hi Michael:
You said:
"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."
I never said that there
isn't something in ourselves that recognizes the Truth. I deny that the
"something" is reason. Jesus said to the Pharisees, "why do you reason
about such things in your heart". The heart is capable of
recognizing the Truth, but that does not mean the heart itself is the
Truth. Jesus was still necessary to "show the way". Without Jesus,
one would not know which direction to head. That is why the statement "I
am the truth, the way, and the life. Nobody comes to the Father except
through me." The Pharisees, who were very smart/rational men, had hardened
their heart, and that is why they could not accept
Jesus.
I also recognize that an
immanent God is different than a transcendent God. I was using the term
immanent with respect to time. God is said to "transcend time". An
immanent God is a God that enters time, and this is the offence to the
Jews.
Take care,
Jim
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Subject: [socialcredit] Douglas and
immanence
"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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