Ontological Arguments (Humans)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Tuesday, September 28, 2010, 23:24 (5169 days ago) @ David Turell

I am not really sure that it is an interface to god that is needed, though, at least in the Christian belief system that is exactly the role that Christ was supposed to play. (Sorry if I digress to theology for a moment, but it is for good reason)Earlier in the bible though, Adam, Abraham, Moses and others had a direct interface with him. Through the scriptures, there is a definite trend of withdrawal over time, kind of a disconnect with that direct line. At first, any angel could serve the purpose, then, only Christ through faith. I am curious as to how that would gradual disconnect stacks up in other religious texts though. 
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> Karen Armstring in, 'A History of God', describes exactly that distancing, culminating in Allah only being known thru his creation, and very distant.-This makes me wonder if that doesn't mean that the early seeds of doubt hadn't slowly been planted and grown?-If you think of religious texts being a record of Man's relationship to God, one could also suggest that it is a record of the tension between faith and reason. When you read John it's difficult for me to take much of what Christ says on the Mount at face value. But According to John later in the NT, it "is only through faith and faith alone" that anyone can be saved.

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