Oannes

DAVID STOCKHOFF · 19 Mar 2012, 18:56 · from 2012-March.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (DAVID STOCKHOFF)
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:56:02 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) Oannes
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 From: James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com>
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On 3/18/2012 11:04 PM, Lee Berman wrote:
> Given that The Outsider never incarnates into a material form, I would guess
> that he is at a higher level than Tzadkiel. But is the Outsider imbued in
> every person and everything, everywhere across all time and all universes?
> I get the sense he is more limited than that (though he has potential).

Well, given that the Outsider asserted that all powers that pretend to be gods will (in some way) tend to become Him specifically, then, yes, he *does* seem to imbue all matter.
This is a paradox that (I think it was) CS Lewis pointed out regarding worldwide religions and religious sects based on the God of the Bible (including Islam and LDS): In other world religions God is either impersonal and infinite or personal and finite. The God of the Bible, he says, is both infinite and person. The Outsider-as-Increate is a very Bible-oriented deity.
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Does that make him a syncretistic combination of East (impersonal infinite, e.g, Buddhism) and West (personal finite, e.g., Thor)? Or is this equally true of the OT as it is of the NT?

Also, are there any examples of an impersonal finite god? Or would that just be a BDO?
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