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Jeff Wilson · 03 Feb 2011, 03:15 · from 2011-February.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:15:35 -0600
Subject: (urth) Merger
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On 2/2/2011 6:21 PM, James Wynn wrote:
>
>>> Andrew Mason:Christianity certainly holds that there have been divine
>>> appearances
>>> in human form.
>>
>> Interesting. I was not aware of that (perhaps not being a Christian).
>> Who did God appear as?
>
> Abraham met with God and two angels who told him about the birth of
> Isaac and the destruction of Sodom.
>
>>> It would be odd to use 'God' as a _name_ for the creator in a world
>>> where it is assumed (at
>>> least in popular religion) that there are many gods.
>> Well, I am a bit more focused on BotNS, and as Roy nicely points out,
>> there is a use of "God"
>> in that story. But it is associated with the Increate, not the
>> Pancreator. And I think it is
>> significant that these two are not necessarily the same in BotNS as
>> they might be in modern
>> Christianity.
>
> "Increate" means "not created". "Pancreator" means "creator of all". It
> seems logically inconsistent that these could be separate persons.
>
>> But most Christians aren't so anal about it, and some are quite
>> willing to use the "Jehovah"
>> version of it out loud. Wolfe is willing to use a version of it in
>> listing the maker of Terminus
>> Est- Jovinian.
>
> Hmmm...that's interesting. Is it understood among Jews that YHWH is a
> Hebrew form of Jove?

Isn't the dating reversed on that?

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
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