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What did this mean in cape fear? "I am like God and God like me. I am as large as God. He is as small as i. He cannot above me, nor i?

Beneath him be. Silesius 17th Century" What did Max cady mean by this?

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  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    atheist trolling ******************** ******************** ********************** **************

  • 2 years ago

    Clearly, that person had not considered the far older statement of Anslem, Archbishop of Canterbury some time after 1093 (11th century).

    Anslem said God has to be “something than which nothing greater can be conceived”. This is part of Anslem's ontological proof of God, in his 'Proslogion’, iii and iv. Basically, it means nothing like the idea of God stretches our thoughts to the limit, beyond which we cannot go because God is so much greater than us. If a man's mind could conceive of anything better than God, the creature would rise above the Creator and judge him (which is utterly absurd, Anslem pointed out). His comments on this have come to be known by the Latin question, 'Cur Deus Homo?'

    Whatever that person meant, in your question, he had no concept of the magnitude of superiority of his Creator, but wanted to make a god out of himself, trying to reduce his Creator to the same base level as himself. I hope he learned the folly of that, and repented of it, before he died.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    Total and complete ignorant nonsense - and blasphemy of the highest order

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