16 Aug '16 10:57>3 edits
Deuteronomy 6:4
Divegeester maintains that this is a starting point in any discussion on the nature of God -
Divegeester, why is this a "starting point." ?
What makes a certain passage a "starting point" ?
Why is Deut.. 6:4 qualified to be the one and only "starting point" on God but, let us say, Genesis 1:1 where Elohim (implying more than one) creates the heavens and the earth, is less qualified to be a starting point?
The former verse pertains to Israel, true.
But the latter verse Gen. 1:1 pertains to all creation and actually refers to being and existence of all things and everyone.
I do not necessarily contend Deut. 6:4 cannot or should not be a "starting point". I question why it seems arbitrary when we could start in other places in our most fundamental understanding of God's nature.
Why is Genesis 1:26 much less qualified to be a starting point then Deut. 6:4 ?
Can you take out some of the arbitrariness of your so-called "starting point" of Deut. 6:4? Why not Genesis 1:26 concerning the creation of mankind in general, be a starting point? And it is followed by verse 26 saying -
Why cannot the Us and "Our" with the He and the Him of Gen. 1:26,27 form our underlying "starting point" in the revelation of God ?
For Christians why would we not ascribe a "starting point" in John 1:1. IE. " ... and the Word was with God and the Word was God " ?
Please define how no other place is suitable to start our understanding of God except from an arguably arbitrary one you prefer in Deut. 4:6.
' Hear, O Israel, Jehovah is our God; Jehovah is one. "
Divegeester maintains that this is a starting point in any discussion on the nature of God -
Divegeester, why is this a "starting point." ?
What makes a certain passage a "starting point" ?
Why is Deut.. 6:4 qualified to be the one and only "starting point" on God but, let us say, Genesis 1:1 where Elohim (implying more than one) creates the heavens and the earth, is less qualified to be a starting point?
The former verse pertains to Israel, true.
But the latter verse Gen. 1:1 pertains to all creation and actually refers to being and existence of all things and everyone.
I do not necessarily contend Deut. 6:4 cannot or should not be a "starting point". I question why it seems arbitrary when we could start in other places in our most fundamental understanding of God's nature.
Why is Genesis 1:26 much less qualified to be a starting point then Deut. 6:4 ?
"And God said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, ... etc. "
Can you take out some of the arbitrariness of your so-called "starting point" of Deut. 6:4? Why not Genesis 1:26 concerning the creation of mankind in general, be a starting point? And it is followed by verse 26 saying -
"And God created man in HIS own image; in the image of God He created him ..."
Why cannot the Us and "Our" with the He and the Him of Gen. 1:26,27 form our underlying "starting point" in the revelation of God ?
For Christians why would we not ascribe a "starting point" in John 1:1. IE. " ... and the Word was with God and the Word was God " ?
Please define how no other place is suitable to start our understanding of God except from an arguably arbitrary one you prefer in Deut. 4:6.