aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent) (04/05/84)
> = Ken Perlow > The flurry of testimonials on the provable truth of Christianity > is certainly awesome. Look guys (& they are all men, too), I > know those godless heathens put you up to it, but hey, hate the > sin but love the sinner, right? I, for one, have not written about the PROVABLE truth of Christianity, but rather about the evidence rendering it PROBABLE (V and B are adjacent on the keyboard, but not identical). And you're right, in a sense; if it were not for the "godless heathens", or as I might prefer to say, the non-believers, and their insistent demand that God prove Himself to them, we would not feel the need to write all these articles. Actually, I infer that Rich Rosen, Jon White, et al. do not really want to know God at all, but rather to attack those who do believe (and the One in Whom we believe). If one really wants to know God, one does not defiantly demand that God prove Himself; rather, one humbly asks God to show Himself to him or her, one humbly asks God to make Himself known; and God will answer such prayers, if they are honest. > Only here on the net it's > more like telephone solicitation using auto-dial! Some people are > deeply offended by such tactics. Ah, but on the net, you can hit the "n" key! But I would be honored if you didn't. > So please, STOP! It's most unbecoming to have to brag that your faith > is TRUE. It's your faith--isn't that enough? I'd like not to hear > from you Christianity-is-provable-truth folks any more. Actually, no; if it were just my faith, it wouldn't be enough. The faith is in Someone outside, "the God who is there" (as Francis Schaeffer says); if one's belief system was totally self-referential, it could have no standard of value other than what seemed good to the individual. One would get lost in "value vertigo", as Doug Dickey called it. Anyway, why pick on only one side of the issue? You should also say that you don't want to hear from the prove-Christianity crew any more either. At least please be fair. I, for one, do not intend to stop contributing articles in favor of Christ, unless the opposition ceases attacking. Personally, I believe the opposition has been/is being deceived, manipulated, used by Satan and his minions. That sounds terribly fundamentalist, but let's not forget that "we are not wrestling against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms." Sometimes we Christians are led astray too. Some of my writings have emphasized Christianity (or, worse, myself) rather than Christ (hence the significant word in the first sentence of this paragraph). Christ is the center; Christianity is peripheral in comparison; they are on the same bus, that's all.... -- -- Jeff Sargent {allegra|ihnp4|decvax|harpo|seismo|ucbvax}!pur-ee!pucc-h:aeq Have you hugged your junk mail today?