VV(5) - God's Limits (Was: At the Mercy of Fortune)

David Morris fqmorris at hotmail.com
Sun Dec 3 00:25:15 CST 2000


>From: "David Morris" ---------
(57) Perhaps the only reason they [TWSC] survived, Stencil reasoned, was 
that they were not alone.  God knew how many more there were with a hothouse 
sense of time, no knowledge of life, and at the Mercy of Fortune.
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God has his/her limits according to Waldetar, who expresses a common-sense 
perspective:

1.  Events between the "living" are not in God's hands.  They are in the 
hands of Fortune and virtue.  Fortune is a deity.  (v)irtue [lower-case "v"] 
is between folks.  It is very puposely a lower-case "V."

2. God, in this equation, controls only the inanimate, the "no-soul."  This 
should inform you next time you pray.  God has limits.  God can only [Only 
God can] control Mount Vesuvius.

3. Soul-to soul interactions are ruled by either _Fortune_ or virtue.  The 
small "v" implies a deity-less means.  This might imply a natural order....

4.  If Wars are in the affairs of "Souls," then in them God has no 
influence.

Amen,
David Morris








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