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Joe Chi Minh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-08-09 06:34 PM
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14. "Rising from the dead is not logically possible." No. this is not a logical
impossibility, like creating square circles.

There are many aspects of human nature and indeed God that we know little or nothing about. The potential for the body to be resurrected by divine agency is an axiom of the Christian faith. Something mortal becoming immortal in a glorified form is outside of our experience, but it is not a logical impossibility, given the omnipotence of God. If God were to change a square circle, then the very meaning of both words would be rendered null, because they are in conflict with each other at the most basic level of meaning itself.

Paradoxes seem to increasingly proliferate, the more deeply the physical world is penetrated, but there we enter a mysterious world, which must at least lead to the interface between matter and spirit, man and God.

But while matter evidently assumes a different aspect, a particles/wave duality at the quantum level, from that with which we are familiar at the mechanical level, if what we perceive is a paradox involving penumbral meanings, the ultimate resolution of the apparent conflicts will emerge in the recognition of a new pristine meaning. Appearances suggesting logical impossibility are clearly deficient, incomplete, since matter does exist and behave in such a manner at the sub-atomic level. It doesn't mean that the property of being wave-like is nullified by also being particle-like, unlike the square and the circle. Our knowledge of these is complete whatever other shapes and dimensions exist, and they are simply incompatible. No mystery at all, no element of incomplete knowledge concerned.
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