I am really enjoying our conversation Rach - it is so refreshing to read your well-though out posts that may disagree with mine, but without any rudeness at all - thank you!!
I'm enjoying it too! Too often I find that someone who doesn't agree with me has to also declare I'm damned as well. I can't understand it really, I would think (quite apart from the whole...I'm a Christians and should act like it!) that the best way to try and reason with someone, would to be...you know....to reason with them!! Makes for a better and more convincing approach than just hurling insults.
so as long as I don't get too crazy about defining who He is and start a cult in South America - I think I am ok pursuing Him, with my mind; as well as my heart and strength.
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According to Genesis, Adam and Eve had rules in the Garden that they followed
This is a good point I hadn't considered. God did require Adam and Eve to follow some rules pre fall huh.
So to be clear, God does not limit Himself to avoid sin or evil - He uses it in a different way - to be know by us and the angels.
Hmm. I see your point, but personally, I still believe that God is not following His own laws per se, but acting completely within His own nature, which He shares with us and is the basis for the laws He requires of us.
As for us knowing and understanding God, He really is so beyond human understanding; but do I believe that He has 'dumbed down' some concepts within the Bible so that we may grasp small amounts of His glory? Yup.
As Paul says in Romans 6:19 "I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations..."
Is it this 'human terms' that you are referring to in some of your thoughts about God? Are you, in a way, trying to use your own 'human terms' to define God? I do understand that, but a bit of friendly advice....please do be careful about doing this. I can just see satan gleefully waiting to slip just one bit of erroneous information in there, and the next thing you know you might find yourself in South America surrounded by crazies!!!!