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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Greg or e who wrote (4816)	12/13/2000 5:04:58 PM
From: Mitch Blevins	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

>>I think a fair reading of this passage tells us that God has simply not told us everything, but what He has revealed to us we can trust.<< How are we to determine what has been revealed to us? If we admit (and you have) that many of God's motives are unknown and perhaps incomprehensible to us, why should we believe that truth is one? Or benevelance? From the many sects of Christianity that exist, we obviously have disagreement over what the scriptures mean, or even which ones are actually the revealed Word of God. I attended a funeral this weekend. The funeral was a Catholic one, but we were visiting beforehand in the home of a Protestant. One of the relatives of the deceased was to give a reading from the Book of Wisdom, which is a book that exists in the Catholic version of the Bible, but not the Protestant version. She asked to borrow a Bible so that she could transcribe it onto a "cheat sheet". Can you imagine her surprise when she found that the protestant bible lacked that Book? Did protestants change the Bible? (she tought so). Is the Book of Wisdom truly the revealed Word of God? >>Let me turn that around and ask you about your understanding of God. Do you have any confidence at all that if you were to die this day (God forbid) that you would find acceptance before a Just and Holy God? What would be the basis for that acceptance?<< When Monday is gone and Tuesday is here, do you think Monday is lonely and depressed? This is a non-sensical question. What part of me will exist after my death to find acceptance? What qualities and entities do you assign under the label of "soul"?

To: Greg or e who wrote (4816)	12/13/2000 6:47:15 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

<< Do you have any confidence at all that if you were to die this day (God forbid) that you would find acceptance before a Just and Holy God? What would be the basis for that acceptance? >> "Just," yes, on the basis that I do the best I can, as poor an effort as that is, and besides, i've suffered quite enough, thank you. "Holy"? I haven't the least idea what that means, Greg, but I suspect it loads the question so that the only ones who can answer it yes are those who buy certain premises that the word "holy" implies. Maybe it would imply to some who would pose the question in that form, for example, that you believe in and worship Him. Maybe that you believe in hell. Maybe that you don't use birth control and confess your sins regularly and tithe to the Church. I really have no idea what the word "holy" means. Can it go with vengefulness and murderous wrath?