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Originally Posted by Gitro
It's a bit like when someone makes up stories to cover something that they don't know up, rather than say, I don't know, now, isn't it.
See its always more important to dominate by shooting someone else down then to apply patience and understand the point they are trying to make. Its so important we toss our own eternal fate into the fire to rush in and dominate someone.
You also forget that for Christians there is a process involved. Its pretty hard to pinpoint everything in the faith process particularly when that process is being run through individual jars of clay.
That's why we resort to dogma so much. Because the process is so hard to explain and its human nature to try to dominate one another.
But the Christian spirit is suppose to be a humble one. We are actually trying to allow the only one who has the right to dominate work through us.
Christ submitted to the will of God and is the anchor in our chain while we submit to Christ. He was a foundational stone and model stone that we build on.
Its the demands of the world that force theists into constant positions of dogmatism. We are living the truth through a process and a transformation and dogma just can never be adequate enough in explaining the process. Dogma is merely a map of the stages of faith development.
All of this is complicated by the fact that man is made in God's unseen image. God is both unique and he is spirit.
Each of us is unique and the only way we can have a saving spirit is by modeling on Jesus himself (the one who was seen and witnessed to the world) who as the Son of God modeled on his Father.
Sons usually have precious relationships with and model on their fathers. Even in the world today some of the best men and the worst men are the result of their father's influence.