From: rpitts@emperor.gatech.edu (Richard Pitts)
Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc
Subject: Re: There are two years left!
Date: 15 Sep 92 19:38:41 GMT
Organization: CERL-EE, Georgia Institue of Technology

In article <zwznhf+.bskendig@netcom.com> bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig) writes:
|[ James Meritt is God. ]

James Meritt put for a theory that he is god and asked for proof against such.

|rpitts@emperor.gatech.edu (Richard Pitts) wrote (in article <68191@hydra.gatech.EDU>):
|>... what can you suggest I request that you do to
|>prove you are god?  Could you try to get executed (via cruxifiction, if
|>possible) for supposedly starting a insurrection (political move) and
|>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
|>your proof?
|
|He could.  He could also suddenly teleport you to Siberia and put on a
|fireworks show above your head.  But if you need this sort of physical
|proof that he IS God, then you're not relying on faith.  You need to
|take a leap of faith and LET yourself believe.
|
|I was thinking about this on the way to work this morning.  "Give me a
|sign," I asked the heavens, "so that I may believe!"  And lo! and
|behold! the license plate on the car in front of me read "JAMES" and I
|noticed this just in time to stop from plowing into his rear bumper,
|because he had slammed on his brakes.  I have been SAVED!

If only the life, works, death, resurrection of Jesus had not have
happened, then you would have some point, but it did and you have none.
You make fun, but it doen't work.

|>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.
|
|Yeah, sure, Jesus rose from the dead, it says so in this old book

Why is this old book superseded for your claim to knowledge and your new
writings right here?  Why, if this old book doesn't have any weight
or worth, do you so readily discount it?

|right here. But Jesus is only make-believe, and Mr. Meritt LIVES!  He

Mr. Meritt lives and will die like mere man, as all of the rest of us
who live will die.  It is appointed unto man once to die and after that
the judgement, you know.

Jesus lived - you claim he is make-believe, but why?  What other 
historical figure, that is proported to be real, do you so agressively
and happily deny existed??????????????

|never died in the first place!  And he still walks among the people!

But he will die - what then?

|Mr. Meritt said he created the universe, and obviously the universe
|exists, so he must've done it.  And I even read in a post recently
|that Mr. Meritt is God, and that post was propagated to hundreds of
|thousands of news sites across the globe, so it must be true!

Now you can read Mr. Meritt is NOT God - he is a man.

|Witness Mr. Meritt; that's the only sign you need!  And if people
|still don't believe even though Mr. Meritt is walking among them
|preaching his Good Word, well, that's their loss, and sadly they'll be
|sent off to an outer circle of Hell at the Final Judgement.

What is Mr. Meritt's good word??????????  Where is he walking, who
is following him, who claims he has the words of eternal life  (you don't for
you are trying to use him to make a point, but you don't follow Mr. Meritt
or even advocate others to follow him.)

|     << Brian >>
|
|P.T.: If this whole post sounds outrageous to you, swap the names
|"Jesus/God and Mr. Meritt", and you'll see how outrageous it looks to
|some non-Christians.

Nope - when you trivalize the message, it may appear to be the same, if
you exchanged the words, but we even you and Mr. Meritt know better.

|-- 
|_/_/_/       Brian Kendig  Macintosh Jedi           Live never to be ashamed
| _/_/   Starfleet Captain  Oracle Employee         if anything you do or say
|  _/  Intrepid Adventurer  Saturn SL2 Owner    is published around the world
|      bskendig@netcom.com  Wizard of Frobozz    -- even if what is published
|    Princeton '92! BSE/CS  Writer/Actor/Singer                   is not true.

For Christ and His Kingdom,
Richard Pitts
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