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- From: frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion,talk.religion.misc,alt.atheism,sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Reconciling OT with NT
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 08:07:08 GMT
- Organization: Siemens-Nixdorf AG
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- References: <1992Nov16.032613.11967@netcom.com> <1ead9cINN8a5@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de> <1992Nov17.173850.14175@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov17.173850.14175@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee) writes:
- >In article <1ead9cINN8a5@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de> frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer) writes:
- >>> One can not reconcile the OT God with the NT God without throwing out
- >>>all logic and rationality. That is one of the reasons that I rejected
- >>>Christianity.
- >>Did you all have the same problem with wave-particle duality?
- >>Lemme see. Light is particle and light is wave. I cannot reconcile these
- >>ideas without throwing out all preconceived notions. You say wave and
- >>I say particle, let's call the whole thing off.
- >
- >Sigh. More quantum pseudoscience.
-
- >Light acts like a particle sometimes and like a wave sometimes.
-
- You accuse _me_ of pseuodscience, and then you say this?
-
- >The problem
- >with reconciling the OT and NT gods is that God tends to be described as
- >being a certain way without qualifications as to "sometimes".
-
- And the problem with all of science is that there are vast numbers of
- completely unreconciled departments all saying apparently contradictory
- things about the universe. Religion is one of those departments.
-
- I have absolutely no problem reconciling the OT and NT, and I'm not even a
- Christian. How does a parent act towards a spoilt child?
-
- >If someone points out that OT actions seems to show God not acting good, and
- >you reconcile the OT and NT gods like you do light as particles/waves, you
- >would be saying "God acts good sometimes and acts non-good sometimes". I have
- >not yet seen a theist claim this.
-
- Who said anything about good and bad? People said in essence that they found
- God's behaviour contradictory, like the doings of a split personality. I
- merely pointed out that the Universe isn't any different (nor are people for
- that matter), so what's the problem?
-
- >Ken Arromdee (UUCP: ....!jhunix!arromdee; BITNET: arromdee@jhuvm;
-
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