RE: The rock God can't lift.
January 6, 2013 at 12:11 pm
(This post was last modified: January 6, 2013 at 12:16 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 6, 2013 at 5:40 am)Tiberius Wrote: Do they mean that literally, or do they mean within the limits of what he can already do. This appears to be a problem in this thread; everyone takes things too literally.
I mean, you can apply the phrase "he does what he wants" to humans too, but we never mean it literally. We mean, "he does what he wants...when he can".
So the question is, when a theist says that their God can do what he wants, do they mean it literally, or are they talking figuratively in order to express the power their God supposedly has.
The question then, in the context of scripture, if I understand this correctly, would be "does "jesus" mean what he says?". Surely you can see why proposing that he doesn't leaves one with very little to assert (if one wishes to maintain "jesus" anyway). If we're willing to entertain endless excuses then there's no reason to include what "jesus" says at all, since whatever he is supposed to have said is going to take a back seat to whatever we are about to say. In this case, that the lord of the cosmos was the victim of linguistic idiosyncrasies - while he was attempting to explain some portion of the cosmos. How unfortunate for him, for us, and for his explanation.
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