Re: OT: Jerry Falwell is dead

On Friday, May 18, 2007, Frank Berger wrote:

What language does God speak? All of them? At once? We know it's hard
for humans to translate accurately from one language to another. Some
concepts, expressions, etc. don't translate well. Is it hard for God to
translate these concepts and expressions? Isn't it possible He sees a
bigger picture than we do, so that what appears unjust to us from our
narrow viewpoint turns out to be just in the bigger picture that God
sees?

Of course it's possible. But then that has nothing to do with "benevolence"
meaning something to God than it does to us. It's not the concept that's
different. It's just that God sees better than we do that the world falls
under that concept.

Matty
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