Terrence--" "You keep shooting, but like a poor marksman you keep missing the target."
Not so. Methinks my judge is blind.
When Leibnitz and Newton first developed the concept of the integral, they were scorned by some. They scoffed at the idea that the area of an irregular space could be calculated dividing an irregular space into an infinite number of regular spaces and then adding the areas of these regular spaces to find the area of the irregualr space. Empirical observation eventually confirmed their findings. Newton and Leibnitz's superior intuitive insights had grasped the conept without the need for experimentation. For most of us, experimental evicence is necessary.
Being born again through faith in Jesus Christ is, in some ways, similar. The intuitive insight is comparable to the grace-the intuitive insight of our heart--that God gives some individuals. The scorn and the ridicule that you heap upon those with superior spiritual intutition reveals something about you. Why not try the novel idea of being rational and assuming the possibility that those that have experienced a new birth through faith in Jesus Christ might just know and have something that is profoundly real of which you are intuitively blind. You have been exposed to religions of the mind and false religions. These are the systems of men that you claim to dispise but in fact are an ardent disciple--Ryandism, Nietzscheism and cultural christianism.
The religion and Gospel of Jesus Christ is simultaneously simple and infinitely profound. Jesus Christ the Son of God--your creator--came to die in your place. He was crucified for our sins and God the Father raised Him up on the third day. If you believe and confess, you shall be born again and filled with the Holy Spirit. To be born again and filled with the Holy Spirit is to get a taste of what you were meant to be when God first created you. You will experience the freedom of having all your sins washed away. You will experience the joy and peace that can only come through fellowhip with God your creator. You will suddenly see things in the Scriptures that escaped your intellectually darkened mind. True knowledge, true rationality, true peace, true loave and true joy==REALITY---The very thing you seek.
Try a little experiment. Open that beautiful but fallen heart. Approach Jesus with a bold desire for truth, honest and reality and see what happens. ECCE HOMO
Emile |