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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
The question comes from the book of Job. In this book there are many complaints about the way God has behaved, his response is that He is building a man and then asks those that contend with him simple questions about building the Earth. They are clueless about building something so simple as the Earth yet feel they are qualified to critique God's building a man. God's point is "who is this that darkens counsel without knowledge". I have asked a simple question of Zeek which proves he is clueless about how to build a simple building. The purpose was simply to demonstrate that he is darkening counsel without knowledge.
The question is simple, and the point is simple: if you don't know the simplest thing about building a building, who are you to tell God how to make the universe?
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And now, an alternate take on this post.
I'm not sure that God is making a statement about "building a man." He is making a statement about the fact that he made it. Period. All of it. The way he wanted. Not the way we wanted or would hope.
I posted this little bit that someone read from what I believe was the beginning of the Tao. While that is just a man's view of things, it still is a little profound.
To restate (heavily) in terms of this discussion:
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When we focus on the minutia, God is a collection of features and is seen in terms of our realm. But when we focus just on God, we see beyond our sphere to where he created it all. Where we accept that we are merely clay that a potter is playing with — masterfully, but still play relative to anything that we mortals can comprehend.
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The Chinese mystics may have simply had a "go with the flow" kind of approach to things. But there is spiritual sanity in accepting God, and the circumstances of the day, as what they are. I believe in the examined life. But too much examination and you don't go forward. And I believe in having goals and knowing where you are going. But too much of it and you are constantly spending now worrying about tomorrow. And if we are caught up in both, we spend all out time reconsidering the past or fretting about tomorrow until we find that we lived a life in which we were never "alive in the moment." We have no todays to look back on tomorrow and no base from which to move to tomorrow.
Yeah, there's got to be some flaw in that kind of nearly circular insanity. But while true logic cannot be circular, the mind of man can go circular because it does not comprehend.