Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Meditations Part 4 paragraph 70-76
In the ending of part four, he gives a lot of reasons why he should not complain that God has not given him a greater power of understanding or a greater light of nature because it is of the essence of a finite intellect not to understand many things. I think he meant that you're not supposed to understand everything, only God has that power. He said that instead of thinking that God has withheld or deprived him of things, he should be thankful because God never owed him anything. He said that he shoud thank God. I think he is saying that everyone should be thankful for the knowledge they have and not complain about the things we do not understand.
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I think you are right. He is saying that we should be thankful to God for letting us understand and for giving us the knowleage to look at and figure out things that we do not understand. We should be thankful to God.
I forget to say that he is talking about the same thing in my section. That he is unable to complian about what God has giving him and that we should be thankful for what God has given us.
I see whhat your saying but in my little part I think he almost backed off because he could have possibly given reason to doubt that God exists... I dont know may that isnt it but he sure did some back pedaling toward the end of mediation 4.
Yea...i agree rachel.
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