From: mlee@post.RoyalRoads.ca (Malcolm Lee)
Subject: Re: THE MIND OF THE BIBLE BELIEVER
Organization: Royal Roads Military College, Victoria, B.C.
Distribution: world,public
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 19:09:17 GMT


In article <C0I4Ft.8C6@acsu.buffalo.edu>, v22964qs@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Mike Cluff) writes:
|> In article <1993Jan7.173515.8834@ra.royalroads.ca>, mlee@post.RoyalRoads.ca (Malcolm Lee) writes...
|> 
|> >God gave me the gift of an analytical mind but even this
|> >mind could not answer the questions that plagued me.  Who am I?  What is my
|> >purpose on this earth?  People that I've grown up with had passed away recently.
|> >And it didn't matter all the good things they did in their lives, they died all
|> >the same.  To what purpose?  I read books and asked other people but it seemed 
|> >they were too caught up in their own interests.  Nobody wants to talk about
|> >death, after all.  It's a subject that usually drags everyone down.
|> 
|> Look at your questions for just a minute, and you'll see why I suspect your
|> claim that you didn't want to believe in God.  All of these questions assume
|> that there's an answer, which an atheist would not assume.  For example, I
|> don't believe that there's a "reason" for my existence (except perhaps that my
|> parents decided to go ahead with the pregnancy), nor do I believe that through
|> good works I will become immortal.  My purpose in life?  To live until I die. 
|> 
I am sorry.  I couldn't accept the atheist belief even though I thought of myself
as an atheist for the longest time.  I couldn't just do it to the groove and do
it, just do it because it feels good.  Yes, I was seeking a purpose, a reason if
you will.  At the time, I didn't think that God was the answer.  Despite my
misgivings, He came through and proved Himself to me.


|> >Are you saying that it is wrong for me to rely on
|> >my family and that it is more mentally healthy that I be an orphan alone in
|> >this world?  
|> 
|> This question seems to be evidence that you *want* god to exist.  Personally,
|> once I decided my "invisible friend" wasn't there, my mental health went up
|> a couple notches.  
|> 
Want or do not want God to exist is irrelevant.  What I wanted was an explanation
to my existence.  And I found that and much, much more in God.  I found the true
meaning of love.


|> >God invented sex.  God created man and woman and they were meant to have sex to
|> >procreate the race.  There was nothing dirty about sex until Satan perverted it into a form of abuse.  Sex was intended by God to be beautiful and it is between
|> >lovers.  
|> 
|> Okay, why did God create Satan?  He was omniscient and omnipotent, after all.
|> 
|> ******************************************************************************
|> For God so loved the world that He gave Man Free Will and then got pissed when
|> we didn't meet his arbitrary standards.  Oh, and he had his Son offed when he
|> realized how impossible those standards were.  -- Michael 4:23
|> ******************************************************************************
Satan was originally an angel, as you may or may not know.  He and all his 
brethren were created to serve God unquestioningly.  God, in all fairness, gave
the angels one opportunity to choose to follow Him or not.  Satan chose to 
rebel as did one third of all the angels.  Satan and his horde were defeated and
cast out of Heaven.  Satan will never repent and he will use any means at his
disposal to see that people will do likewise.  Why?  Satan knows that we have the
potential of being God's holy people and out of spite, he would take that away
from us.

God loves, Satan kills.
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