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From: pez@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Paul Zimmerman)
Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc,net.religion.christian
Subject: Re: Our 'Common Religious Heritage'
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Date: Mon, 13-Oct-86 16:15:24 EDT
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In article <1284@trwrb.UUCP>, gibson@trwrb.UUCP (Gregory S. Gibson) writes:
>   I think it is ironic that the evil god people have the same God concept
>    that the good god people have.  i.e. One god, human like qualities,
>      all powerful, mysterious, etc.

	I don't see it as irony. I see it as a sign that, despite all the
handwaving and roundabout assertions made by those who believe in God as good,
we ARE talking about the same God. I also see it as an indication that those
who hold the ``good God'' premise wind up showing themselves to be confused
and misled about the nature of God. They must go through contortions in
order to forcefit the premise that God is good into the reasoning (based on
the evidence, including the Bible itself), reasoning that consistently leads
to no other conclusion than God being evil. Unless, of course, these examples
of special pleading and circular reasoning are injected.
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Be well,

Paul Zimmerman (pez@mit-eddie.UUCP, pez@unirot.UUCP)