Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!tekmdp!dadla!dadla-b!hutch From: hutch@dadla-b.UUCP Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Not about abortion Message-ID: <499@dadla-b.UUCP> Date: Fri, 22-Jul-83 14:32:19 EDT Article-I.D.: dadla-b.499 Posted: Fri Jul 22 14:32:19 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 23-Jul-83 17:41:40 EDT References: utzoo.3089 Lines: 22 What would I think of a human whose only motivation was self-glorification? Loaded question. I answer it as if mARK had thought about it rather than leaping to conclusions. I would think that a person whose ONLY motivation is self-glory, had a God complex. I.E. that said person thought they were capable of glory and that they were sorely mistaken. The statement "God does what He wants ... for no other purpose than to bring Himself glory" does NOT say that God's ONLY motivation is self-glory but rather that His PRIMARY motivation is His glory. What would you think, mARK, of someone (an artist, for example) who created incredibly beautiful things, and when asked why, said that it was so they would be remembered and admired? That is a very pale reflection of the kind of Glory that is God's, and the motivation towards increasing it which He has demonstrated. When that motivation leads Him to cause His Son to suffer and die, in order to restore and save part of His creation, then how can you talk about double standards? Hutch