From: rpitts@emperor.gatech.edu (Richard Pitts)
Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc
Subject: Re: Top 10 Reasons for Believing in the Deity of Jesus Christ.
Date: 13 Apr 92 12:26:14 GMT
Organization: CERL-EE, Georgia Institue of Technology

In article <1992Apr10.145918.10701@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> pmy@vivaldi.acc.virginia.edu (Pete Yadlowsky) writes:
>In article <54092@hydra.gatech.EDU> rpitts@emperor.gatech.edu (Richard Pitts) writes:
[...]
>It seems to me that the only things for a good believer to do are to spend
>life silently watching, asking and listening, never exalting oneself to
>proclaim to others what is right and wrong. For all you know, God is up there
>rolling his eyes and sending memos to Quality Control.

Obviously, this is your concept of how God works?  

Jesus told us that we are to be salt and light.  The light is to shine
before men - it reveals things hidden by darkness/sin.  The salt is to
purify.  No we are not to fix the world, but we were given a command
by Jesus to GO INTO ALL THE WORLD, BAPTIZING THEM, AND TEACHING THEM TO 
OBEY EVERYTHING HE COMMANDED.  Matthew 28:19-20.

Do you think it is wrong for us to present the gospel?

>>>Try to resist the Bible-reach reaction:
>
>>Why would you want to restrict me or anyone else to not being able to use
>>the Bible????  It is a source of knowledge, more than I or anyone else has.
>
>It is a source of myth and philosophy. I would like to see you do more
>thinking and less reacting, as in popping out pat answers, e.g. God's
>wisdom/man's foolishness.

To you it is a myth, but to us it shows us God The Father and His Son,
Jesus the Christ - it shows us Jesus, but we are not to seek eternal
life in the scriptures, but rather in Jesus Christ himself.

I am not slow on thinking - I think the point is that I use the Bible
to present my thoughts, which is perfectly valid to Christians, for we 
believe the Bible is true, and should be valid to those who oppose the
validity of the Bible, since to them it is no different than any other 
book.  Unless, you have another book of insight from which you quote.

>>Christianity is not man's way - religion: working to get to God is man's way.
>
>Well, I can only respond "sez you". Christianity is a religion, one of the
>world's many. It proposes a saviour figure as a means of getting to God, as
>opposed to some other means.

It has a Savior, who came down to us.  We do not work our way to God, for
Jesus, the Savior, paid the price with His blood, which washes away
all our sin.  Salvation is a gift from God, not of man.  Other religions
have ways to work themselves to a god - Christianity has works, but they
are not for getting to God, but to show God's love to man and to mature
us in the faith.

>>Ask Allah how much work you have to do to get to heaven.  What if you
>>don't do one of these works???
>
>>I think [muslims] hold that the Old Testament is valid, it is hard to see how
>>they hold the New Testament as valid and yet not see Jesus as God's Son.
>
>Well, let's ask: Muslims?

Fine.  Would a Muslim address the point of Jesus being God's Son
       and your prophet.

Sincerely,
Richard Pitts
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