From: "John T. Duryea" <jtduryea-AT-dmv.com> Subject: Re: god Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 14:33:49 -0500 >Dear Mr. Schaefer, > > I think you missed my point yet again. I did not set out to demonstrate >the truth of Christian Dogma but merely to point out that Christian Dogma >as articulated by the Nicene Creed explicitly claims that God did die. >Therefore, the claim that it is impossible for God *as understood by >Christian dogma* to die is not true. Now, you may deny Christ's divinity, >that Jesus of Nazareth was indeed truly God, but that is a seperate matter >altogether. > >Paul S. Rhodes > Separate. hmmm... might not a physiognomic sceptic from the perspective of his historical sense wonder whether the other Christian Dogmas *not* articulated by the Nicene Creed were the eventual losers not because of any lack regarding their inherent "truth", but rather, their opposition possessed more vigorous leaders who did not stoop to enshrining the victory of their dogma with more powerful force of arms. Needless to say, the victors in actual fact, burned the libraries of the losers. One might also ponder the miraculous total break between the Old and New Testament. As Nietzsche points out, God had a real stroke of genius when he decided to speak in Greek. What better than a late language, full of hair splitting, sophist rhetoric, as a vehicle to meld decadent neo-platonicism with a primitive sect and thereby get lost in a labyrinthian dogmatic debate as to the nature of the trinity. John T. Duryea --- from list nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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