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To: Barnabus who wrote (32056)	11/2/2000 5:13:38 PM
From: mark silvers	Respond to of 39621

OMB, By saying what you believe is "truth for you"---what a Buddist believes is "truth for them"---what a Hindu believes is "truth for them"---am I right Mark? If I am right on that assertion, I would conclude that that leads you to: "As long as I am sincere, it really doesn't matter what you believe." What do you think? Sometimes truth is in the eye of the beholder. Let me give you a poor example:-) There are three men. All three men are robbed of their weekly paycheck on the way home. all three men have one dollar left which they use play lotto before the get home. All three men win a small prize which is less than the paycheck the were robbed of, but enough topay their bills until their next check. The first man goes home and tell his wife of his rotten luck at getting robbed and laments his poor luck. He feels that winning the lotto was a very poor way to make up for his loss and he feels that he has been "hosed" by the whole experience. The second man goes home and is just plain confused. He doesn't know how to interpret the events of the day and just feels that he will never understand the meaning of lives events and it is just better to go on with his life without thinking too much about it. The third man, is ecstatic. He can't believe his good fortune at winning enough money to cover his bills. He thinks that the whole series of events have a been blessing and a life lesson on the inherent goodness in nature and life in general. All three men have a different truth. Not one of them is necesarily wrong. I can only do those things that make sense to me, that I truly believe are right. If I acted in a way that I trly didn't think was right, how could that be pleasing to anyone, let alone God? If Love is not the path to God, then I truly believe that maybe I need to walk a different path. Mark

To: Barnabus who wrote (32056)	11/3/2000 11:44:28 PM
From: Jamey	Respond to of 39621

Barney, Print this off and give it to your friend. Phillipians 3 12"Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. 13Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 15Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. 16Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing. 17Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. 18(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: 19Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) 20For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: 21Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself." Let not the desires of the enemy defeat you from following Christ. If you refuse to fight the enemy then your battle will be over. You have given too much of your life's most precious treasures to this foe. God has not deserted you. He will restore you. Santiago