From: rpitts@emperor.gatech.edu (Richard Pitts)
Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc
Subject: Re: There are two years left!
Date: 15 Sep 92 19:25:16 GMT
Organization: CERL-EE, Georgia Institue of Technology

In article <1992Sep15.174837.22738@linus.mitre.org> m23364@mwunix (James Meritt) writes:
|In article <68191@hydra.gatech.EDU> rpitts@emperor.gatech.edu (Richard Pitts) writes:
|}In article <1992Sep14.201052.16393@linus.mitre.org> m23364@mwunix (James Meritt) writes:
|}|In article <68149@hydra.gatech.EDU> rpitts@emperor.gatech.edu (Richard Pitts) writes:
|}|}In article <1992Sep14.161647.7312@linus.mitre.org> m23364@mwunix (James Meritt) writes:
|}|}>In article <68019@hydra.gatech.EDU> rpitts@emperor.gatech.edu (Richard Pitts) writes:
|}|}>}Let me ask you this question, Mr. Meritt, HOW HOW HOW do you know the
|}|}>}end came, since according to you all that saw it have left?  Obviously,
|}|}>}you lump yourself into the unworthy bunch, since you are still here.
|}|}>
|}|}>I did it myself.  I'm God.  Didn't you know that?  If you don't agree, I
|}|}>extend to you the same challenge as last year: prove I'm not.
|}|}
|}|}Make the pencil on my office table write your name on the yellow pad
|}|}on top of my printer.  The pad is blank and the pencil is sharp and has 
|}|}an eraser, in case you make a mistake.  You are claiming to be an all
|}|}powerful god, aren't you?
|}|
|}|Sorry, but I don't do parlor tricks any wore than that upstart faker Yahweh.
|}|Don't you know that you are not support to tempt god?
|}
|}Good answer - however, what can you suggest I request that you do to
|}prove you are god?  Could you try to get executed (via cruxifiction, if
|
|Did.  Didn't you get the word?
|
|}possible) for supposedly starting a insurrection (political move) and
|
|Nah.  Unlike Yahweh, I am against mahem, genocide, murder, and such.  _I_
|am a kind god!
|
|}then on the third day be seen in a flesh and bone body which can 
|}transcend matter (i.e., go through walls)?  Or what do you propose as
|
|Like Dracula?

I didn't know Dracula did this.  Again, why don't you give some proof.
Instead of your trivial 'oh I already did statements', give some example
of what you can do to prove you are a god, since you proposed I do so, but
rejected my request and yet offered nothing except words.

|}your proof?
|
|Same as Yahweh - hear me and believe!

Are you quoting Jesus here - it seems you are - however, Jesus did do
MANY THINGS AND OFFERED MANY CONVIENCING PROOFS that he was who he was
(God in human flesh) - try it yourself.

|}Oh, by the way, Yahweh considers the witness of His Son, Jesus the Christ,
|}as the only sign we need - PEOPLE STILL DON'T BELIEVE EVEN THOUGH HE
|}ROSE FROM THE DEAD, as he said they would not.
|
|And how do you know this?  I suppose that this witness came to you and
|directly witnessed.  Oh, He didn't.  How about the word of a direct witness?
|Oh, none of those, either?  Well, THIS is better.  _I_ am telling you!

Yes, via the written word and via CHANGED LIVES (MINE and those who have
told me about it.)  Where are the people following you claiming to 
do what Mr. Meritt says and not what man says?  Where are the people
going all over the world spreading any proported good news about Mr. Meritt?

Where are the volumes of books that are written about you and your life
and where is the evidence that if all written about you was written then
the whole world could not contain them?

Here is the Scriptures comments on seeking wisdom and signs:

   1 Cor 1:18   For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are
      perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
   1 Cor 1:19   For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the
      intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate."
   1 Cor 1:20   Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the
      philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the
      world?
   1 Cor 1:21   For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom
      did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was
      preached to save those who believe.
   1 Cor 1:22   Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom,
   1 Cor 1:23   but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and
      foolishness to Gentiles,
   1 Cor 1:24   but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ
      the power of God and the wisdom of God.
   1 Cor 1:25   For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the
      weakness of God is stronger than man's strength.

The summary of Scriptural thought on those who cling to their ways instead
of God's way and what we preach (Jesus as Lord - not ourselves.)

   2 Cor 4:4   The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so
      that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who
      is the image of God.
   2 Cor 4:5   For we do not preach ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and
      ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.


For Christ and His Kingdom,
Richard Pitts
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