| Pete Dashwood 2008-02-14, 6:55 pm |
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"Judson McClendon" <judmc@sunvaley0.com> wrote in message
news:45Zsj.73459$Mu4.20127@bignews7.bellsouth.net...
> "Pete Dashwood" <dashwood@removethis.enternet.co.nz> wrote:
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> Pete, you keep ignoring stuff I have already said. :-)
If you say something new or different, I won't ignore it... (sorry, that's
not true; I will... see below)
> Remember when I
> stated that it is impossible to understand the Scriptures without help
> from the Holy Spirit? The Author of the Bible, the One Who inspired
> the men who penned the Bible in the first place, lives within all true
> believers in Christ and teaches them what they need to know, if they
> will listen to Him (John 14:15-17,26). But, just as Christians can fail
> to obey God in their conduct, they can also ignore the guidance of
> the Holy Spirit. God does not force obedience, or override our free
> will.
>
>
> Pete, I don't see why you find this so difficult, unless you are simply
> trying to find areas to disagree.
Obviously I don't need to find areas to disagree; I disagree with all of it.
After reading this (yet another...) regurgitation of the same tired circular
arguments, the "broken record" repetition of the same meaningless litany, I
thought pehaps I better take pause.
I have been trying to explore ideas of religion and belief with someone who
HAS no ideas of his own on religion and belief.
You have accepted ONE idea, which you got from a book. You have not explored
other ideas and you won't.
What have you ever experienced or evaluated for yourself?
You live in a world where hearts are wicked and deceitful (because the Bible
says so), good, decent people, are immoral (if they don't believe in God),
gentle, kind, compassionate people are possessed by wicked demons who have
fooled them into ruin (if they happen to be of another faith), and most of
humanity is gleefully sentenced to an afterlife of eternal torture.
A world that requires its inhabitants to ignore the evidence of their own
eyes, accept a planet that is 6000 years old, accept mediaeval superstition
of ghosts and ghouls and demons and things that go bump in the night, and
offer total obedience to a petulant, spiteful, "Supreme Being", who has the
mental age of a 12 year old (or a person living 3500 years ago).
Your world is irrelevant in the 21st century, and the wonder is not that you
choose to live in it, but that you are compelled to persuade others to live
in it too.
It is only the fact I have some time that has kept me here, nothing is being
achieved and it is foolish of me to waste the time I have.
May the God that you took from a printed book be with you...
I wish you well, but I wouldn't want to be you.
Pete.
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"I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."
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