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To: I Am John Galt who wrote (25847)	6/14/1999 3:08:00 PM
From: mark silvers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

TC, Who cares if they claim to comprehend God? Nobody has shown any evidence backing that up You were the one who mentioned comprehension. Comprehension and evidence are wholly different things. Is that a healthy way of looking at it, Mark? I can think of two instances in which that isn't: The Crusades and the Spanish Inquisiton... and there are many more out there. Are you trying to say that if people think they comprehend God, it leads to war and tyranny? There are many more instances of people who rightly or wrongly feel that they comprehend God and are moved towards acts of love, compassion, and kindness. Lumping atrocities together with the concept of Godly comprehension is rather meaningless in and of itself. So you have to assume that you can't comprehend God until you meet him and take down his street address. Why? That is an absolutely false statement. To comprehend is defined as "to understand the importance or meaning of". It is certainly possible to do that without knowing an address. The first reason is that nobody will believe you. So what. The second reason is that it's always better to assume you don't know than to assume you know. Self-righteousness is exactly what the Bible teaches against...assuming you know more than God. Why is it better to assume you don't know something? Assuming you know something does not make one self-righteous. We all have opinons and some of them are strongly held convictions and some are mere guesses. Being self righteous has nothing to do with it. As far as the Bible is concerned, I am neither a jew nor a christian(and don't believe in organized relgion) and don't think the Bible should taken literally. So that has nothing to do it with it either. Mark