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Posted by Broadway Lion on Wed Dec 29 10:33:10 2004, in response to Re: Media Taking Christmas out of Christmas, posted by David of Broadway on Tue Dec 28 22:49:16 2004.  The God of my religion does not have a physical form or anything remotely resembling one. As far as I know, only the Hindus have images of their God. And those are rather fantastic. If God is all Powerful, then It seems within his realm of power to appear to the faithful in whatever mode or body he chose. Catholics believe that God is present in the Eucharist under the form of Bread and Wine. We also believe that God is present in the Word. Have you seen an Angel? Yet Judiasim does believe that Angels have appeared to men. Have you heard a Prophet? Do Prophets still exist on Earth. Islam says the Mohammad was the last Prophet. Have you heard of the five blind men who touched and elephant, and then tried to describe that elephant to the ohters. Each one of them possessed a piece of the truth, but none had seen the whole elephant, or could describe him correctly. You, We, Us are blind, and God has not stood before us. We each have touched God, felt his warmth, his strenght, his love, his wisdom, but none of us can posess the whole of God or describe him correctly. Be content with that which God has given to you. If you want to know more, it does not hurt to study the other great religions of the world, for they too own a peice of the truth. Christianity understands itself as a branch from Judiasm: A Shoot from the Stump of Jessie. Islam understands itself as an extension of both Judiasm and Christianity. Buddhism agrees with you: "If you see God walking down the street, take a bat and kill him." For that was not God. Like human DNA, we are far more alike than we are different. Indeed, Hemoglobin is only 5 atoms off from Chlorophyll. On the other hand, I must say that I am mighitly impressed with the Hebrew and Jewish scholarship shown in these threads, and that I do want to study some of this more seriously. Elias |
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