*Haha* Are you stoical? But surely you are expressing your true emotions?? At least tell us that that is true. Otherwise... well, you must be a valcan or something.
Occationally, to avoid misunderstandings, I do the same thing with my smileys and use them for clarification on how I'm saying something, but not often. That's probably a common method of communication here on LJ.
Ah, I like your thoughts on Question 2, and I'm in complete agreement, it looks like. God has always had wisdom, and so that wisdom was not created and goes back into eternity since God does.
Hehe. I know what you're saying--I'm like that, too. But I do express my true emotions online in emoticons. :) (Yes, I'm really smiling this time, which is often the case, too.)
OH yes, I have been getting a lot of those. For me, at least I am actually receiving the old emails, rather than having them not show up at all
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Well... right about the e-mails. The thing for me is that I was good about keeping up with all the comments, and so 99% of the old comments coming in through e-mail were already seen and old to me (not that they still weren't good comments :)).
Ehh, they don't have to be literal. We can't see the literal, anyway. Just as long as you are being honest about who you are and how you respond, I think that's good.
The problem is that I am often either constantly smiling or constantly frowning during a post...LOL! That's funny. You don't often have a straight face? That's standard for me. It looks like everyone basically does the same thing as you for the ;) and :P faces. Those are more symbolically symbolic of real expressions ...er... something like that. They speak more of an attitude than a real expression on the face. So, I'm with you on that
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Ah, I was afraid I was mistating myself. My apologies. I was not saying that God had neither reason nor intelligence. For one thing, I am not convinced that God is "outside of time." (That's in an essay I wrote, purely speculative, but currently something which I am keeping my eyes open on.) However, what I meant was that, as beings created in God's image, we are finite examples of what I would say are many of God's best attributes. That is to say, when we speak of reason and intelligence in us, we are using those words to express our limited understanding of the capacity and complete perfection of those attributes in God. So I would say that God is really the one who reasons and has intelligence, and we humans are simply beginning students on the subjects, taking lessons from a master. You are right in saying that there is a difference in our intelligence and his. I do not know that our reasoning is necessarily different on a philosophical scale, as I believe we both go through the same abstract processes when we reason. The
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Yes, I saw (but didn't read, yet) your article on God and time. The Bible provides at least two hints as to God's relationship with time. (1) It says that God inhabits eternity (Is. 57:15), or you might say all of time, which I view as in contrast to us inhabiting a moment. (2) It says that time is relative to Him, essentially, when it says that one day is as a 1000 years and a 1000 years is as a day (2 Peter). Now, yes, time is relative even in our measurement of it, but not in our normal experience of it. My belief is that God created time (as we know it), and therefore His existence is not in any fashion limited by time, nor is He bound by it at all. This might also elucidate His eternal existence in the past
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:D Good for you. "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine." Laughter is so good for us, and doctors have just recently started proving that.
Yes, that God created them? Yes, I think He created them as we know them, but they are also a part of His very nature and being, I believe. So, if He existed from eternity, then His reasoning/intelligence/wisdom existed from everlasting as well.
With me, as with most, appartently, I tend to use lol too much. I've realized I have a problem with emphasizing too much and I want to change that in case the "lie" commmandment covers that. So I'm trying to only use it when I do actually emit a sound.
As to faces, usually I sit stoically in front of the screen, and merely use them to express my feelings at the time. Like Missy said, I want to show the spirit in which I wrote whatever I am following up with a face.
It would only be a lie if you were trying to deceive people. If we know better (or you think we do), then that's fine. Also, certainly you don't have to emit a sound if you're laughing inside, so to speak, but usually that manifests itself with some outward expression. Neither do you need to make the actual faces in real life, if you are sending an honest message about your emotions.
Personally, I feel it's good for people to get an accurate view of me and my reactions, and it's also nice to know how other people really feel about things. It's good to avoid misunderstandings, and the faces can help with that, and I think we all understand that type of usage of them.
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Occationally, to avoid misunderstandings, I do the same thing with my smileys and use them for clarification on how I'm saying something, but not often. That's probably a common method of communication here on LJ.
Ah, I like your thoughts on Question 2, and I'm in complete agreement, it looks like. God has always had wisdom, and so that wisdom was not created and goes back into eternity since God does.
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Ehh, they don't have to be literal. We can't see the literal, anyway. Just as long as you are being honest about who you are and how you respond, I think that's good.
The problem is that I am often either constantly smiling or constantly frowning during a post...LOL! That's funny. You don't often have a straight face? That's standard for me. It looks like everyone basically does the same thing as you for the ;) and :P faces. Those are more symbolically symbolic of real expressions ...er... something like that. They speak more of an attitude than a real expression on the face. So, I'm with you on that ( ... )
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Were wisdom, reasoning, and intelligence created by God? We talked about that yesterday... and I think my answer was yes....
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Yes, that God created them? Yes, I think He created them as we know them, but they are also a part of His very nature and being, I believe. So, if He existed from eternity, then His reasoning/intelligence/wisdom existed from everlasting as well.
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As to faces, usually I sit stoically in front of the screen, and merely use them to express my feelings at the time. Like Missy said, I want to show the spirit in which I wrote whatever I am following up with a face.
*shrug* good question.
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Personally, I feel it's good for people to get an accurate view of me and my reactions, and it's also nice to know how other people really feel about things. It's good to avoid misunderstandings, and the faces can help with that, and I think we all understand that type of usage of them.
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