A Usenet persona calling itself Michael Daly wrote:

On 2-Mar-2005, Scott Weiser wrote:

Since you obviously don't get to define how God manifests himself, God does,

I'm making no such definitions. God can manifest mimself in any way He
chooses. However, there is no documentation in the Bible of God
manifesting Himself in any way that is deemed to be Himself.

Really? How, exactly, does the Bible "deem" how God manifests himself as
himself? Any cites which describe the "true manifestation" of God? Wouldn't
a biblical constraint on how God may manifest himself as "himself" be rather
limiting to, well, God? Why would God so restrict himself?

He wouldn't.

You are merely trying to impose an artificial limitation on the "legitimate"
manifestations of God as "himself" in order to tautologically support your
unsupportable argument.

All
manifestations are as something else - a man, a burning bush, etc.

Well, since God is omnipotent and omnipresent (according to dogma), it would
seem to me that God can "be" anything he wants. In fact, he can (and indeed
is by many definitions) be EVERYTHING at once if he wants. He is, after all,
without limitation by definition. Thus, if he "manifests" himself as a man,
or a burning bush, he is manifesting himself as himself.

You don't get it, you never will.

No, quite clearly, you don't get it. It is possible, however, that you
someday will.


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