one of the funniest books on this subject
Not Henry Porter wrote:
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Here's a funny quote I just read that sort of reminded me of the reason I started this thread, which was to hear VARIOUS peoples VERSIONS of mysterious subjects from the worlds of physics and philosophy:
"The physicist Leo Szilard once announced to his friend Hans Bethe that he was thinking of keeping a diary: 'I don't intend to publish.I am merely going to record the facts for the information of God.' 'Don't you think God knows the facts?' Bethe asked. 'Yes,' said Szilard. 'He knows the facts, but He does not know THIS VERSION of the facts.'"
Which reminds me that I always felt that not enough emphasis was put on this concept which was most certainly present in early Christianity, namely, that God's forgiveness (under the New Covenant) emanated from his having actually experienced what it is like to be "fully human."
one of my favorite books on this subject is jung's "God's Answer to Job." the premise is that God became human to atone for the suffering he caused Job. By incarnating himself as a mortal, he learned compassion for the human race.
a significant difference in this story of a god incarnating himself as a mortal is that in most other stories with this plot, the immortal being takes on the cloak of mortality, not to save humanity, but to engage in sexual acts with it.
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