[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Book of Questions #17

[Amanda Lewanski]

Rebecca, you're starting to scare me. This is about the third thing
you've written that so closely echoes what I think that I could have
written it. Maybe we're related....? Do you like Snape, too?

--Amanda

"Horst or Rebecca J. Bohner" wrote:

> > Reluctant Messiah," where the narrator/focus/whatever says he'd be
> bored
> > with eternal perfection, and Donald Shimoda (R.M.) says to look at
> the
> > sky. Asks if it's a perfect sky, gets the answer "It's always a
> perfect
> > sky." Then asks, "But is it always the same?"
>
> Good point.  (Ack!  I agree with Richard Bach!  *runs screaming for
> the
> hills*)
>
> Seriously, though, I think our problem with "perfection" is that we
> really
> have no experience of it.  Everything tangible and visible in our
> world is
> either imperfect or limited or some combination of both.
>
> The closest our minds can get to the idea of perfection is to think of
>
> something that is absolutely symmetrical, mathematically precise, and
> unchanging -- a clinical and static conception that immediately makes
> us
> think, "Well, sure, there's nothing wrong with it, but how BORING."
> On the
> moral level, if we think about perfection we imagine some sort of
> chilly,
> supercilious prig who goes around judging everybody without mercy, and
> that
> repulses us as well.
>
> But if something is boring, it is not actually perfect after all.
> That very
> quality of dullness renders it imperfect even though by every other
> measurement it may be "correct".  And if a person is cold and
> supercilious,
> they are not perfect either, even if their ethical standards are
> logically
> flawless.  So again, our concept of perfection is completely off the
> mark.
>
> Getting back to the Christian concept of perfection, according to the
> Bible
> there is and ever was only one human being on the earth, throughout
> all of
> history, who was absolutely perfect in every way.  I realize that not
> everybody agrees about who Jesus was and whether His claims about
> Himself
> were true, but I think it's safe to say that whatever else He may have
> been,
> He was definitely *not* boring.
> --
> Rebecca J. Bohner
> rebeccaj at pobox.com
> http://home.golden.net/~rebeccaj
>
>
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