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To: mark silvers who wrote (11976)	3/20/1998 5:17:00 PM
From: Chris land	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

Mark, I don't think you love the same God that I do so we're very different in that respect. As to being fervent and well meaning I suppose you are, but the road to hell is paved with good intentions and well meaning fervent people pass down it everyday. I trust you have some understanding of the Christian faith so as to know I'm not trying to bash you as someone is suggesting, but am presenting the truths presented in the bible. -Chris

To: mark silvers who wrote (11976)	3/20/1998 5:41:00 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

Mark, I believe you say you can love God differently. I believe that you can be fervent in that belief. And well meaning.There is a little section of Acts(Acts 18:24-26) whereby a very learned Jew named Apollos came to Ephesus speaking with great fervor with a thourough knowledge of scripture,and taught about Jesus accurately. though he knew only the baptism of John. When he began speaking boldly in the synagogue Priscilla and Aquila invited him to their home and EXPLAINED the WAY of God more adequately. What do you supposed they told him? dcf

To: mark silvers who wrote (11976)	3/20/1998 6:17:00 PM
From: gregor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

Dear Mark: Since I have been included in a very select group >>>>>>>Alan, Nancy, Jane, Chris, Robert, gregor, Shalom, Emile, WTCausby<<<<< then it should be OK if I say a few comments that may have eternal consequences for you. You seem to have renounced the religion of your fathers, I wonder what they would have to say about that ? You say that Jesus was probably the son of God ? I wonder what Jesus would have to say about that? If what Chris and Bob and Emile and Jane and I say is true then consider the cost of not taking the leap of faith. It was never meant to be an easy decision. But by the same logic why should it be such a difficult decision. Just stop and think about this one second.! I don't doubt you one second when you say that you relate to God. Who am I to doubt your relationship with God , right. Can't you see that God is constantly drawing all men unto him. He is going to leave the door cracked just a "hair" , he is going to let you hear a small whisper, or catch a fleeting glimpse every once in a while, just enough to give you a few doubts about the road you are headed down. But there is one thing he will not do. He is not going to make it any easier for you to find Christ than he made it for me who grew up in a good Christian home, or for a Buddhist or an athesist. After a Christian is established, and I feel that is what many of these are here on AG, ones faith becomes much stronger but also the trials become much stronger. So in a way , God still gives all of us a free will to become clay to harden in His light or to become wax, to be softened in His light. My heart goes out to you because I know that it is the hardest decision one can ever make, so it with this thought in mind I ask God, your God,my God, the one true God, the one and only God; to illuminate your pathway, to bring you to Him with gentleness and caring and love , and loyalty, and longsuffering, and blessings, and family, and in friendship and in all familiarity and in joy and in peace and in fullness and in song and in temperance and in unity of thought and in a sound mind and in good health. In Christ.gregor