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Pastimes : Ask God -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sam Ferguson who wrote (16529)	5/27/1998 12:25:00 AM
From: Thomas Calvet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

Sam, again you have some truth interwoven with the teaching of men. I have a statement to make, but I will wait until the end of this message. "The fact I say it (I suppose you mean the Bible?)* has been reporting pagan myths and sayings of the Oracles is based on provable manuscripts and art carvings and statues."* Ok Sam, I know you have mention these things before, but before I can answer you I will need specifics. I'm serious Sam, I will need to research your claims if I'm to refute them. "The things unexplainable are made possible by the reasoning that God is our creator and all things are possible with God. If that were truth we would have been created without sinning capability by a perfect God." Sam, do you believe in the fact that man has a free will? For God to have made us without the capability to choose, He would have to make us robots. Can a robot express love towards it's creator? "God would not create evil. God is love." Yes! God would not and did not create evil. God created the universe, (if you want to talk physics, I can really blow your mind!) and within that universe you have beings which God created for specific purposes. His crowning achievement was mankind. He made man in His image (a personal being with the capacity to reason [self-awareness]). God wanted a creation that would want to fellowship with Him on it's own volition, not because He programmed it to do so at His will. But with that gift God knew that mankind might reject Him, and he did. Sam, I cannot convince you that God exists as a personal creator, one who created all things. I can't persuade you to believe that the Bible is His communication to us, His creation. It's the Spirit of God that convicts man's soul. The question then becomes, which spirit is God's? How do you know if the spirit that is talking to you is of God? Is there a guide, a standard by which man can know God? Sam, in my short years I've done plenty of soul-searching, and I've come to the conclusion that God exists, and He is the God of the Bible. No man has convinced me of this, only His spirit, and I keep studying the Bible to know His will for my life, to guide me into all understanding, and it is logical. If Jesus is not who He says He is, then I would not believe in God, because nothing else makes any sense. I would drop all semblance of moral character and do whatever I wanted. I'd sleep with as many women as I could, cheat every person I could get away with. I'd do anything to please myself for tomorrow I would die and that would be that. Tom