Post by troubledgoodangel on Jul 27, 2007 6:42:44 GMT -7
Our Founding Fathers were good at nation building. Benjamin Franklin could analyze thunders and other natural phenomena with the greatest precision. But neither of them was a linguist or a mystic by any means. Had they been so, they would have promptly rejected deism as an incoungruous, impossible construct of the mind. First, by its definition deism requires "putting distance behind." But God, by His Nature is omnipresent, and lest He is omnipresent, He cannot be God. So much for the deist "absence of God," or the "removal of God." God simply cannot remove Himself from any place, for that would presuppose a place beyond His control, a place left to another. God's power cannot be compromised in this way, or he would not remain God. The second reason is that in God there is no time. Time is a human invention, and so is distance which is a function of time. The notion of distance is simply moot when referring to God! Human beings tend to evaluate all things with "time" in mind. We leave Poland for China: that's takes distance; therefore time. We eat, and walk, and sleep; time is consumed in that. We absent ourselves; that takes both time and distance. Even death, to a human mind, requires a "moment of time." With God this is not so: He is always present in all places! His travels do not require time nor distance. When God is in China, He is also in Poland at the same time. Precisely for this reason, God is always involved in all things since the dawn of the Creation to its end,...simultaneously! This means that God has created all things with His Divine "interventions" being programmed into the Creation's Plan. God controls every instant of each person's life, and if someone dies, one can bet that this is best for that person within the overall plan of his or her life! This itself is enough argument not to fear anything, and to love God! Hitler confused this with a ruthless Fate, which he thought was "God." But Hitler's belief was dead wrong. The Wodan belief in Fate, which is akin to Deism, presupposes that Fate is uninvolved and random, and governed by the "Almighty Nature" (I have read some letters of Pius XI reproaching Hitler the erroneousness of those beliefs). But normal Christians are certain that God loves them enough to intervene! My dissertation would not be possible, lest I was certain that the Holy Spirit writes it, that the Providence of the Father gives peace and freedom to write it, and that I am in Jesus, for whose Kingdom is the writing! If the intervention of any of the Three Divine Person were missing at any given time, my dissertation would immediately collapse! For this reason, I am strongly convinced that those who say, "we are deists," are in grave error ... for properly speaking no Deism can be ascribed to God! Such people do not understand the Magnificence of this Wonderful God that we have!
