tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post6430656241469386300..comments2024-03-18T21:33:35.309-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Where God Begins and EndsGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-79017731165662589122016-06-10T04:19:38.595-07:002016-06-10T04:19:38.595-07:00For unlike some of our competitors, we don't s...For unlike some of our competitors, we don't spend a lot of time wondering how all the evil got here. Rather, we wonder about how all the love, truth, beauty, creativity, and freedom got here."<br /><br />Which is enlightening. Allenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10998933457283434204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-84045895605973798342016-06-09T13:13:19.478-07:002016-06-09T13:13:19.478-07:00... and this may unsettle Christians, but we'l...<i>... and this may unsettle Christians, but we'll find a way to make it work -- it is as if there are two levels in God, even though God of course remains one ...</i><br /><br />We need to be unsettled. Julie's tree analogy works. Then there's the river that always the same and never the same. The ocean over which storms pass whose depths are always placid.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-70427506777652553792016-06-09T12:46:02.654-07:002016-06-09T12:46:02.654-07:00Elsewhere I read of a good analogy. That is, I wil...<i>Elsewhere I read of a good analogy. That is, I willed my son into existence. But I do not will the badness he does, even while knowing full well that he will inevitably do naughty things.</i><br /><br />O yes, I remember that line. It comes to mind from time to time, when the rascals are particularly rascally.<br /><br /><i>God acts but the Godhead does not act. The mystery of the darkness of the eternal Godhead is unknown and never was known and never will be known.</i><br /><br />Like roots buried deep beneath the earth, but having as extensive an amount of growth as the trunk and branches they support, such that if one could see the <i>totality</i> of the tree, it might be described in very different terms than what we usually use when we think of a tree.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-65830857359509728502016-06-09T10:24:11.425-07:002016-06-09T10:24:11.425-07:00Yes, maybe these are all just different ways of ta...Yes, maybe these are all just different ways of talking about the same thing -- as in Hinduism, where there are Nirguna and Saguna Brahman. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-82552425710269270172016-06-09T10:03:06.153-07:002016-06-09T10:03:06.153-07:00I was thinking how the notion of Godhead/God lines...I was thinking how the notion of Godhead/God lines up with Hartshorne's <i>dual transcendence</i>: God as the supreme embodiment of each pair of metaphysical contraries.tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.com