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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Perhaps the blogger didn't have all this in mind -
and he isn't Catholic. Considering that there are a lot of Catholics who
don't know the essentials, and think we worship Mary - at least judging by the
ex-Catholics who say they believed that - there are probably just as many
Protestants who don't worry much about such nuances.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Whether what the blogger wrote reflects Anne Rice's
perspective, or is just the interpretation of the blogger, I don't
know.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Either way, reading what we know into any such
situation can't be terribly hard, and I know I have to get my mind around
similar things when I read general fiction, since I like ghosts, vampires, and
sci-fi (when I get a chance to read fiction.)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've never read her stuff, but I've seen two movies
that I liked, and skimmed a few pages of some of her books, and it looks
enjoyable. That's why this caught my attention, and I was thrilled to see
that it comes from someone who returned to the Catholic Church. So I don't
expect her to be a Thomas Aquinas, and I expect to have to take much of most of
what I read with a pinch of salt, so her book will likely be no
exception.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Overall, for people who don't concern themselves
with technical theology, it is likely to do more good than harm.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>God bless,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Stephen</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=rcdianne@yahoo.com href="mailto:rcdianne@yahoo.com">Dianne Dawson</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=skorsman@theotokos.co.za
href="mailto:skorsman@theotokos.co.za">Stephen Korsman</A> ; <A
title=apologetics@gathman.org
href="mailto:apologetics@gathman.org">Apologetics Group</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, January 17, 2006 11:27
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Apologetics] Anne Rice:
Christ the Lord - Out of Egypt</DIV>
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<DIV>Stephen,</DIV>
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<DIV>I agree with you totally - guess I was too lazy to type all that in my
previous e-mail. However, the blogger wrote: "At the same time we
see the progress of Jesus' own self awareness <U>as he begins to question who
he really is</U>, given his unusual abilities and the secrecy surrounding the
events of his birth and move to Egypt,...." </DIV>
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<DIV>The "age appropriateness" of His knowledge, I believe, is solid
thinking but I just can't believe there was any questioning going on in His
mind. I am very interested in reading the book though. Thanks for
sending the information.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Dianne<BR><BR><B><I>Stephen Korsman
<skorsman@theotokos.co.za></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I won't try and define how Jesus could know he
was God, because it's too complicated for me. As a baby, I can't
imagine that he could know anything in the sense we know things as adults
... although, just as he was aware that he was conscious and existing, I
doubt he lay there comprehending that consciousness / existence the way we
do as adults. As a baby, he must have been aware that he was God, but
not in the "adult" sense of contemplating the creation of universes,
etc. As his awareness that he was human became more defined as he grew
older from infancy, it may have been that way with his understanding of his
divinity. He knew he was God, but as his mind matured, he could
probably, at age 12, express (to himself) his existence as God in a
different way to what he did as a newborn baby. As God, he could
comprehend the physics of the universe in a way today's scientists can't ...
but I doubt that he did so as a baby. He "knew all things that God
knows in himself by the knowledge of vision, but not all that God knows by
the knowledge of simple intelligence." (Thomas Aquinas, Summa III,
10,3.) [I copied that quote from <A
href="http://www.ewtn.com/library/CHRIST/KNWLDG.HTM">http://www.ewtn.com/library/CHRIST/KNWLDG.HTM</A>,
which is a nice overview.]</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I think the book sounds like a really good one
... and if we don't try to comprehend the mind of God, it would probably be
very inspirational. I doubt she meant it as a doctrinal thesis,
although she probably did mean it, in some way, as a witness to her
return to Catholicism.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>God bless,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Stephen</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=rcdianne@yahoo.com href="mailto:rcdianne@yahoo.com">Dianne
Dawson</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=skorsman@theotokos.co.za
href="mailto:skorsman@theotokos.co.za">Stephen Korsman</A> ; <A
title=apologetics@gathman.org
href="mailto:apologetics@gathman.org">Apologetics Group</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, January 17, 2006 4:43
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Apologetics] Anne Rice:
Christ the Lord - Out of Egypt</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>I saw this book in WalMart the other day but didn't pick it up to
read what it is about. I think I'll probably revisit it. The blog
comments are interesting however I am bothered by the tendancy for people
to disconnect the Humanity and Divinity of Jesus. The Hypostatic
Union (<A
href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07610b.htm">http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07610b.htm</A>)
is not a joining or comingling of the natures but a true uniting into one
subsistence and one person. Therefore there would be no separation
of the Divine knowledge and the Human knowledge. Jesus, at whatever
age, knew exactly Who and What He was.</DIV>
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<DIV>Dianne<BR><BR><B><I>Stephen Korsman
<skorsman@theotokos.co.za></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There's quite a good but brief review of
Anne Rice's novel, "Christ the Lord - Out of Egypt," at <A
href="http://www.baggas.com/blog/archive/2006/01/christ_the_lord.html">http://www.baggas.com/blog/archive/2006/01/christ_the_lord.html</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>God bless,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Stephen</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>--<BR>Stephen Korsman<BR><A
href="mailto:skorsman@theotokos.co.za">skorsman@theotokos.co.za</A><BR><A
href="http://www.theotokos.co.za/">www.theotokos.co.za</A></FONT></DIV>
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