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From: bch@mcnc.UUCP (Byron Howes)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Re: QUESTIONS FROM A FRIEND
Message-ID: <409@mcnc.mcnc.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 16-Mar-85 11:55:34 EST
Article-I.D.: mcnc.409
Posted: Sat Mar 16 11:55:34 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 18-Mar-85 01:47:52 EST
References: <347@oakhill.UUCP> <1172@houxm.UUCP> <1259@aecom.UUCP>
Reply-To: bch@mcnc.UUCP (Byron Howes)
Organization: North Carolina Educational Computing Service
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Summary: 

In article <1259@aecom.UUCP> teitz@aecom.UUCP (Eliyahu Teitz) writes:

>> Now, letting God back into the picture does not change things.  When He
>> created humans, he did not wish them to eat of the tree of knowledge.
>> In that, he withheld from us the ability to be like He is, to know all
>> things.

> But now that we have eaten from the tree of knowledge how come we are 
> not like G-D, all knowing ? Your theory is weak on this point.  
> 
>                               Eliyahu Teitz.

Ah, but there are some traditions who believe we are like G-d, at least
potentially, but have been kept away from that truth for various theological
reasons.  Theoretically omniscience could be a skill that, like any other,
needs to be understood and practiced to be used.

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						Byron C. Howes
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