Thursday, August 11, 2011
Isn't it our concept of God is subjected to Aladdin Lamp's syndrome, a limited omnipotence for His power?
Anyone who has read the stories of the one thousand and one night would love the story of Aladdin and his wonderful lamp. The geni of the lamp could perform much powerful things (changing the fate of Aladdin) but yet is required to stay in the lamp until the body of the lamp is rubbed aganst as a command to require him to appear. I find rather true to human mind and that is when human thinks of his God, he may attribute him with all the power to create but yet is subject to the limitation of what the human's limited and finite mind can conceive. So his God is only a God his mind can conceive and believe. How to get away from this I call Aladdin's syndrome? Conversely, if we attribute God's power could break the lamp where he was first confined in our concept, our thinking of God is then from Aladdin's Lamp to a situation that God is required to do everything without exception human requires God to do. Again a product of his mind.
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