Posted by wryspy at 198.16.19.70 on September 21, 2001 at 14:11:58:
In Reply to: I know the answer to this one, too. posted by 37™ on September 21, 2001 at 14:02:46:
: If God knew what Azrael was up to, there wouldn't be a movie.
Yes, there would, if that's how God wanted things to happen. Like if Linda Fiorentino's character had to go through all that to be the right kind of mother to the next Messiah.
: Actually, isn't God supposedly (according to the movie) subject to the normal constraints of being a human when He(She) is in human form?????????
That's not relevant because the omniscience, omnipotent God was not subject to those constraints when choosing the human form to take and could have foreseen what would happen. (Whoa, getting Calvinist here!)
It just means that the Lord works in mysterious ways and it's not up to us mortals to secondguess Him/Her, so we should treat a crisis like it matters because we don't know what the heck God is up to.