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Gerry Quinn · 03 Feb 2011, 12:06 · from 2011-February.txt.gz

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From: gerryq at indigo.ie (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 12:06:43 -0000
Subject: (urth) Merger
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From: "Son of Witz" <Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org>
> On Feb 2, 2011, at 4:21 PM, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Lee Berman:

>>> 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.
>
> I have understood them to mean the same thing. The Uncreated Creator of 
> All made the Creation.

I don't think it is impossible that there could be a religion in which they 
are different - but I don't see any indication that this is so.  The two 
names seem to be used in identical contexts, and are never contrasted by any 
speaker.

Imagine a book about our world in which the names 'God' and 'Satan' were 
used.  We would soon notice that these referred to different entities, at 
least according to the conceptions of the public at large.  Nothing like 
this is apparent in BotNS.

- Gerry Quinn

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