On 4/27/06, Klaus Stock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > inspired later Muslim philosophers and theologians. For example, the > > Brethren of Sincerity > > (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brethren_of_Sincerity > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia_of_the_Brethren_of_Sincerity > > - full disclosure: I wrote those articles) took a position that the > > Creator was unbounded in ability and attributes, and that to even > > describe him in remotely earthly (or comprehensible for that metter) > > terms was to commit a falsity. > > Heck. At least visually God resembles a human, as the Bible tell us so. > > Darwinists however might conculde that this means very little, because > during the creation of the universe, apparently no complex structures > existed - so the similarities with God won't neccessarily extend past the > basic structure/interaction of elementary particles and energy. > > This discussion can of course be circumvented by adopting one of the most > popular religious viewpoint ("kill all non-belivers"). > > - Klaus
Yes, that is true. But it is easy to work around such an objection: of course God could take on a human form, or that's how we perceive him. Similarly, the Brethren were not Hanbali theologians; they and quite a few of the other schools accepted multiple non-literal exoteric and esoteric readings of the scriptures, and indeed, even allegory. ~maru _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
