Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: garyh@crash.cts.com (Gary Hipp) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: An atheist's question Message-ID: Date: 12 Nov 90 01:45:46 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA Lines: 30 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article kevinc@sequent.uucp (Kevin Closson) writes: >In article vvrcd@helios.lerc.nasa.gov (Robert C. Dibacco (SVER)) writes: > > >> [ text deleted ] ... I had a sister who battled two long years >>with breast cancer that eventually spread to her liver. Talk about a heart >>breaking experience to see a woman of 38 with a young daughter and a loving >>husband wither away. > > ... > > but I must believe that God will still use this happening in my families lives to bring more of them into the fold. > > > > THIS is unbelievable! Rather costly evangelism, don't you think? What ever gave you the idea that it was cheap? If anyone gives you the idea that being a Christian is a life where all your problems are solved and you will live in complete bliss, they are telling you a big lie. Christians WILL suffer more than those who don't believe because the process of being separated for God's work is trying and sometimes painfull. I leave you with this, And He was saying to them all, if anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me. for whoever wishes to save his life shall lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, he is the one who will save it. for what is a man profited if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits himself?--Luke 9:23-25.