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After all, is our idea of god anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
-Georg C. Lichtenberg
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After All, Is Our Idea Of God

Georg C. Lichtenberg
After all, is our idea of god anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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I should . . . prefer swallowing one incomprehensibility rather than two. it requires one effort only to admit the single incomprehensibility of matter endowed with thought, and two to believe, first that of an existence called spirit, of which we have neither evidence nor idea, and then secondly how that spirit, which has neither extension nor solidity, can put material organs into motion.
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What is sin? it is the glory of god not honored. the holiness of god not reverenced. the greatness of god not admired. the power of god not praised. the truth of god not sought. the wisdom of god not esteemed. the beauty of god not treasured. the goodness of god not savored. the faithfulness of god not trusted. the commandments of god not obeyed. the justice of god not respected. the wrath of god not feared. the grace of god not cherished. the presence of god not prized. the person of god not loved. that is sin.
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What makes a genius? the ability to see. to see what? the butterfly in a caterpillar, the eagle in an egg, the saint in a selfish person, life in death, unity in separation, god in the human and human in god and suffering as the form in which the incomprehensibility of god himself appears.
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It's been written that the most sublime figure in american history was george washington on his knees in the snow at valley forge. he personified a people who knew that it was not enough to depend on their own courage and goodness, that they must also seek help from god - their father and preserver. where did we begin to lose sight of that noble beginning, of our conviction that standards of right and wrong do exist and must be lived up to? do we really think that we can have it both ways, that god will protect us in a time of crisis even as we turn away from him in our day-to-day life?
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