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March 26, 2012
Rejoice! God's Got You Backed Up!
Every computer user knows that the hard drive of a computer is liable to fail without warning, to die, in other words.(In fact, that’s how we put it when some mechanical device fails. "My car died," we say.) So computer users back up the data on the hard drive, say onto magnetic tape. If you have a current backup, your hard drive’s death causes only temporary distress. You can take the dead hard drive out and smash it to pieces with a hammer if you want. You install a new hard drive and restore the data off the backup tape onto it. Nothing is lost. All the information is restored perfectly. The new hard drive is indistinguishable from the old one. No one can tell the difference between the old one and the new one. God remembers us perfectly. And God will perfectly restore every "backed up" detail of who we are into our resurrected bodies in the age to come. -- Donald Sensing HT: The Belmont Club
Posted by gerardvanderleun at March 26, 2012 9:55 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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The brain is a secondary organ. It is your executive Secretary that is constantly placing files on your desk so you can make your command decisions (whether its to wonder about the universe, save the whales or even play video games).
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Whales, elephants, dolphins all have magnificent executive secretaries - but there is no one sitting in 'the executives chair' so the business of mere survival is the order of the day.
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So where does the soul reside 'within the body'?
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Well... deal with the question circuitously:
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In medieval times, theologians asked "How many Angels can dance on the head of a pin?"
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In modern times, lay people have asked "How many people can watch a youtube video?"
Posted by: Cond0010 at March 26, 2012 10:25 AM
In the book What's Mine's Mine, George MacDonald said it like this:
The brothers believed most devoutly that the God who is present at the death-bed of the sparrow does not forget the sparrow when he is dead; for they had been taught that he is an unchanging God; "and,"
argued Ian, "what God remembers, he thinks of, and what he thinks of, IS."
Posted by: mushroom at March 26, 2012 10:36 AM
"what God remembers, he thinks of, and what he thinks of, IS."
Whoa... nice.
Posted by: Cond0010 at March 26, 2012 10:48 AM
"what God remembers, he thinks of, and what he thinks of, IS."
God doesn't exist, he is eternal. God doesn't think, he creates.
Soren Kierkegaard
Posted by: John Hinds at March 26, 2012 12:06 PM
You might say that for God to think, or speak, is to create.
Posted by: mushroom at March 26, 2012 2:27 PM