merrill@rex.DEC (02/13/85)
I believe in God because he answers prayers. I have seen personally and read about many others of SPECIFIC answers to needs prayed about with no objective reason to expect any answer without "intervention". I have had to learn patience (answers are not normally instantaneous) and reasonableness (if you ask your father for a rock, isn't even a human father going to give bread?). Rick Merrill (617)-493-3751
arnold@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Ken Arnold%CGL) (02/15/85)
>I believe in God because he answers prayers. I have seen personally and >read about many others of SPECIFIC answers to needs prayed about with no >objective reason to expect any answer without "intervention". > Rick Merrill Some examples here would be useful. The Oracle at Delphi (and other oracles as well) have a long history of proper predictions and recommendations which proved out, a record of about one thousand years. Since I'm sure you don't believe this proves the existence of Apollo or any other Greek or Roman God, you must mean something different than this kind of thing. So figuring out what you DO mean would be helped greatly by some examples. -- Ken Arnold ================================================================= Of COURSE we can implement your algorithm. We've got this Turing machine emulator...
kjm@ut-ngp.UUCP (Ken Montgomery) (03/01/85)
[] >I believe in God because he answers prayers. I have seen personally and >read about many others of SPECIFIC answers to needs prayed about with no >objective reason to expect any answer without "intervention". I quit believing in "God" because he didn't answer prayers, nor did I sense any sort of communication taking place. > I have had >to learn patience (answers are not normally instantaneous) and reasonableness I never got *any* answers, regardless of the request. >(if you ask your father for a rock, isn't even a human father going to give >bread?). That depends on whether you're eating supper or building a wall. :-) > Rick Merrill -- The above viewpoints are mine. They are unrelated to those of anyone else, including my cats and my employer. Ken Montgomery "Shredder-of-hapless-smurfs" ...!{ihnp4,allegra,seismo!ut-sally}!ut-ngp!kjm [Usenet, when working] kjm@ut-ngp.ARPA [for Arpanauts only]