| The point isn't whether God can reconcile a paradox within itself. The point is that there are things that not even an all-powerful being can do, which kind of throws a monkey wrench into most monotheistic theology.
Er, the point is that in a different language, squares would still have four sides and circles would have one. There can't be something that is the concept of square which is simultaneously the concept of circle, whether those are the words used for the concept or not.
Anyway, that's not what's "keeping me from a meaningful relationship with God." What's "keeping me" is the fact that most parts of organized religion make no sense. As I said, I'm agnostic-- you can't prove there is a God, but you can't really prove there isn't, either. And I'm pretty sure I'd subscribe to the good old "Great Watchmaker" theory, if I thought there was a God. He just made the universe and that was it. (But I see no reason why the universe couldn't have just always been there. Of course, this gets into complex ideas about the nature of time about which I am utterly clueless.) Plus, I'd rather live by my own morals than someone else's. And all the persecution doesn't help, although (some of) that's in the past. (I'm Jewish on both sides, if you'll recall.) |