"God's" will, my will, free will ?

Etu Malku said:
Right, and what of it? Scripture is hardly fact.

Doing the Will of another

Whatever happened to the Mother archetype? Much too Pagan/Goddess-like?

You've proven my point even more . . . this is NOT Freedom of Will.
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The problem is the denial of the female counterpart. However the female should never be treated like the male which can be confused because she is the feminine half. I am glad to see at least you acknowlsdge the facts . In reference to the female counterpart god is also called her protector.
 
Allelyah said:
Princely

The Lord also says who understands.Here are a few passages.Put them together and see what you can find.

This is a nice image of unity with wOrds.
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Well its always a prince who rescues a princess isnt it?
 

lovely thread !
this & its mother-thread on "Good & Evil"

but it reminds me why scientists & philosophers & theologians
begin their endeavors by setting down some definitions
so they don't (endlessly) talk at cross-purposes with each other

who was it that called this kind of ad-hoc discussion , "conversation by analogy" ?
u each harboring (protectively) u'r own klatch of "meaningful" metaphors

as my pal Stevi once told me
the meaning of life is not metaphorical

Stevi insisted that u have to (instead)
either stop talking about "meaning" & start talking about (cold hard) "truth"
in a definitive way
or get dead-serious about "meaning" &
distil those contexts which actually apply
{originally posted 10-24-2011}​
for instance

salishan said:

time-travel back 2 billion years
to the young earth with its new ocean
suddenly teeming with single-celled life

each cell competing against every other single-cell for available nutrients

eventually (by accident) some of these individual cells bump up against each other
& cluster
& find that together they can corral more nutrients-per-cell than they can traveling solo
(they're called eukaryotic organisms)

these clusters organize in better & better (more efficient) ways

what started as an accidental physical event of contact
becomes a concerted drive toward community-building
(building an entirely new kind of eco-system , in the process)

many of the scientists who look at this clustering phenomenon , see it as
a very basic (but very real) evidence of intelligence at work in nature

let the "heroic" single-cells go it alone , if they want
but the "meek"
(who surrender a portion of their "free-will" to community-building)
shall inherit the earth
(sharing is the more intelligent thing to do , nutrient-wise)

(down thru the drama of evolution)
are the heroic solo figures (like reptiles) more "free" ?
more free than the intelligent communal figures (like mammals) ?

aboriginal single-cells are "designed" (genetically) to survive alone , my friend Stevi points out
except that the course of evolution
works against aboriginal design
yes , that is what intelligence does

intelligence is a "results-oriented" (Pragmatic) law of nature

Stevi quips (only half-jokingly)
the Second Law of Evolution should define life as
intelligent anti-design

& maybe that is what u each should be talking about
& not (de-contextualized & ungrounded) abstractions about "freedom"
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donnann said:
The problem is the denial of the female counterpart. However the female should never be treated like the male which can be confused because she is the feminine half. I am glad to see at least you acknowlsdge the facts . In reference to the female counterpart god is also called her protector.
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By this statement you are saying god is a male? Surely an omnipotent entity would be both . . . how would He know the Feminine otherwise?
 
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