Friday, January 22, 2010

If we assume the text presents a unified, coherent understanding of God, w/o contradiction...

A. God is blue
B. God is red
How do you deal with the contradiction?

C. God is both blue and red.
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A. God is blue, and no other
B. God is red, and no other
Contradiction?

C. God appears blue in some cases, and red in other cases. Mediated by time, historical progression and evolutionary revealing of God's character.
C1. What is meant by "other?" - It means that God is blue, and there is no other GOD, not any other color.

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A. God is blue, and no other color
B. God is red, and no other color
Contradiction?

C. It is the nature of God to transcend color, therefore he encompasses all colors. He is totally blue, and also totally red; he has no colorful boundaries.

ad infinitum,
reductio ad absurdum

Is this simpler to do, or just say that the text contradicts itself?

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