Re: Atheist bus seen as offensive

Gareth McCaughan wrote:

Depends what you mean by "the world", I guess. I think Ken means
"the physical world that we inhabit" or something of the sort,
and believes in a spiritual world that existed before the creation
of our world. So the devil wouldn't be uncreated, merely created
before us.


Again, fwiw, a common Jewish take on the plural form of "Let us make man..., etc." is that God was addressing his court of created beings, and associating them with his decision to create the world. This is seen by sages such as Rashi as a sign of divine humility.
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Revd. Eric Potts

"I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able
to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day."


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