--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltablues@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Jason" <jedi_spock@> wrote: <snip> > > Basicaly, there are two types of Gods. The personal god of > > Abraham, Issac and Jacob. And the god of the Spinoza, > > absolutely impersonal having no special people and no active > > interst in causation. <snip> > > Do you think a babbling moron like Robin can make > > distinctions between the two? > > Robin hasn't really clarified or expanded on his theological > views. I believe he does make this distinction, but has > given priority to the personal as being more real in some > unexplained sense.
Actually he's done quite a bit of explaining of this very point. It may not be clear to you--and it's not all that clear to me either--but he's taken a number of stabs at it. One of the most detailed, in fact, was in a discussion he and I began about a quote from MMY. I got bogged down in the complexities and had to promise him I'd get back to it eventually, which I haven't managed to do yet. His last contribution to the discussion was post #295624, if anybody's interested. He put particular importance on a quote from Gerard Manley Hopkins that appears about two- thirds of the way down the post. It doesn't necessarily cover all the bases, but it does provide a rationale for the priority Robin gives to "the personal as being more real."
