Sarah Kanary wrote:

Sarah, I have read every word you have written and considered it and
given afforded what you have declared ponderance. Will you do the same
with what I write here?
>
> I have seen the folly of debates or "apologetics". They bring little
or no
> glory to God.

Granted, often more heat than light is the result of these debates.
But there have been enough emails from those who do not want to "enter
the fray" yet who have had this or that explained to them via the
"fray", that I feel some justification for continuing.

> Granted, debates can be instructive, but often their focus is
> shifted to polemics or are mainly for entertainment, to see who
argues
> 'better'.

Exactly.

> That must be why there is no record of Christ challenging the
> Pharisees to debates,

But I think you are using the word "debate" too formally. He did
certainly challenge them and prove them wrong, even using their own
traps to trap themselves. Christ is the Expression, the Exegete of
God. There is no revelation of God except Christ. He is the "exact
representation." Again, as I have pointed out to you before, only the
infinite can exactly represent the infinite.

> even though he could have beat them every time. He
> was interested in winning hearts, not arguments. He wanted to
attract,
> humble, sheeplike people, not proud apologists. So I will simply
present
> what the Bible says, and let the reader take it from there.
>
> Rom 1:18-32:

> Yet, in all this diversity, each person is a separate being/entity,
there
> are no conglomerates to be found.

"And two shall become one." I can start a sentence and my wife can end
it. What of that "conglomeration"?

> And all creation is highly organized.

THIS, Sarah, is the great dilemma. Don't you understand just what
"unity in the midst of the diversity" signifies? You just got done
quoting Rom 1:20, yet you refuse to allow for its expression of
reality. For instance, as I have often pointed out to you, the cosmos
is a continuum of space, mass & time. You cannot separate any one of
those aspects from the other, that is, mass cannot exist without there
being space for it to dimensionalize itself. Nor can it exist outside
of time! These are each correlated and co-dependent. Will you not at
least admit this point?

And again, as I have repeatedly illustrated for you, space, mass and
time themselves extend this relationship. Space is X-Y-Z coordinates.
Time is past, present and future. Mass is liquid, solid and gas.

So, if you are willing to quote a passage of Scripture, are you then
willing