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: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 20:15:59 GMT


In article <C0L1FG.B9v.1@cs.cmu.edu>, drake+@cs.cmu.edu (Drake) writes:
|> mlee@post.RoyalRoads.ca (Malcolm Lee) writes:
|> 
|> >You are punishing God by rejecting Him.  A father would be pained if his son
|> >rejected him.  Same with God.
|> 
|> Oh.  Poor God.  I feel sorry for him.  Maybe he should take a hint.  He sent
|> his prophets, we killed them.  He sent a flood, plagues, earthquakes and
|> hurricanes, and we ignore him.  He sent his Son, and we killed him.  What
|> does it take for your God to figure out that we just don't like him all
|> that much?  Huh?  What do we have to do to get the point across?
|> 
You are speaking for yourself.  I, myself, am very happy that God loves me and is
a vital part of my life.

 
|> >Reason cannot explain everything.  I am safe in saying that Mankind does not
|> >know everything and has not been able to reason everything out.
|> 
|> The fact that we haven't is no proof that we can't.  People said we couldn't
|> fly, either.  Ever see a plane?
|>
Mankind will never know all the things that God knows.  Belief in such is part in
parcel with Satan's false promises of greater wisdom which he used to tempt Eve
in the Garden of Eden.  It is Satan telling us that we don't need God and that we
can have all that God has.  Yes, we can send people through the air on planes and
even launch them to the moon.  But we can't eliminate world hunger.  We can't
eliminate the imbalance between prosperity and poverty in various countries.  We
can't eliminate racial hatred or resolve cultural differences.  Is it so important
that we are bent on going to Mars when Joe blows away Hakim with a shotgun because
he doesn't speak the same language?  What is the depth of mankind's wisdom?  What
have we really learned?

It will not ever equal the wisdom of God.

 
|> >reasons for emotions?  I know for sure what I have experienced.  I have felt
|> >God's touch and I've glimpsed what visions He would have me see.  
|> 
|> You know that you've experienced, but there's no way you can prove what
|> they were.  They could've been the salami you had for lunch giving you
|> nightmares.
|> 
The fact that I've had these experiences on several occassions is proof to me that
they are real.  I will agree with you that I can't prove these experiences to you
or anyone else.  The most I can offer is testimony to God's very real existence.


|> >I've stood up in public
|> >proclaiming the good news of the Word of God.  This is something I would not
|> >have been capable of before.  Where does this power come from?  
|> 
|> Sure you could have.  You just didn't have lots of people encouraging you
|> to act like a damn fool before.
|>  
|> >I tell you, it is the power of God's Spirit.
|> 
|> I tell you, it is all in your head.
|> 
|> -- 
|> Love and Laughter,             | NOTE: Private mail must go explicitly
|> Xeper and Remanifest,          | to drake@seismo.soar.cs.cmu.edu
|>                        DRAKE   | or it'll bounce back to you...
You give me too much credit.  In truth, the credit is due to God.  He enables me
to do that which I've never been able to do on my own.  I remember the person I
was before I knew God and I was a lesser person than the one I am now.  I can
testify to God's power because I have experienced it for myself.
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