Reply #32: No, I don't take it all that seriously...

[TreasonousBastard]

and I'm a lot busier working out some other theological problems.

FWIW, I'm doing a lot of catching up on things I haven't dealt with for years while working on a critique of Barclay's Apology (yet another project I'd love to have the time to finish). Inconsistancies in theology seem to be a given and do tend to drive you nuts after a while. If there's an afterlife and you ever run into Descartes or Spinoza, ask them about it. Me, I'd love to meet them and see what they, and a lot of others, have learned since then. Hegel and Barth must be real hoots by now.

Fun's fun, but the very notions of omniscience or omnipotence are irrational in our terms. Our puny minds just can't grasp the concepts of the continuums and eternities that a God lives in.