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To: epicure who wrote (31960)	3/3/1999 10:20:00 AM
From: Sam Ferguson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

"But those snake handling Christians DO really believe, clearly not many doubts on their part. They are obviously exemplary Christians." Yeah we have a lot of them buried in East Tennessee. Never could make sense out of love thy neighbor and hate your family. Or telling the Apostles to buy swords.

To: epicure who wrote (31960)	3/3/1999 10:42:00 AM
From: Rick Julian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Faith and Doubt Some of you may remember an athlete named Spud Webb who once played for the Atlanta Hawks. In a game dominated by players averaging 6'6", Spud was only 5'6". And he could dunk a basketball. Very well. So well in fact that one year he won the NBA's annual dunking contest with an acrobatic assortment of 360's, reverses, and self-fed bounce pass Allie Oops. (For those of you wondering what the hell I'm talking about--believe me--these are extraordinary athletic feats) He beat the pants off of a bench full of some of the finest athletes in the world, and he did it giving up a full foot (sometimes more) in height. Spud's calves and quadraceps, his knees and ankles, his hands and arms were not extraordinary, but his faith was. He not only believed he could elevate himself to remarkable heights, he knew he could because he and his faith had proven it. Did he ever doubt himself and his abilities? I'm sure he did, but not in the moment when he "took off", because doubt is dead weight to a leaper. Everything is Everything. Faith is faith: in the temple, in the field, in the cathedral, in the mosque, in a car at a stop light, in a quiet corner of a tiny Section-8 apartment, and on a basketball court.

To: epicure who wrote (31960)	3/4/1999 1:35:00 AM
From: Krowbar	Respond to of 108807

X, And when a snake handler dies from the bite, the amazing thing is that the rest of the followers never conclude that the handler didn't really believe, as the test is supposed to show. Or how about the survivor of the tornado that always says that they know that God saved them. If there was a God, wouldn't he have been responsible for creating the tornado that pounded the crap out of them and killed their neighbors? Or maybe it's just because they didn't pray as hard as the survivor that they got killed. Or maybe God just didn't like 'em. Del