Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: fiddler@eng.sun.com (Steve Hix) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Is there a God? Message-ID: Date: 13 Mar 91 08:34:26 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca. Lines: 31 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article lindborg@cs.washington.edu (Jeff Lindborg) writes: >In article lums@soggy-fibers.ai.mit.edu (Andrew Lumsdaine) writes: > >>Another reason is answered prayer (as you mention below). >>The most convincing to me is that there really does seem to be an >>absolute morality (see _Mere_Christianity_ about this -- C.S. Lewis >>explains it much better than I). > >Of course for every answered prayer there is an unanswered prayer. I >know... I once used to pray to the same god you do. Can you be sure? How can you differentiate between no answer and an answer of "no" or "not yet" or "wait"? Bugs my kids when I don't say "yes" (understandable), and usually I try to explain why I decided the way that I did. In some cases, it's not possible to so explain at the time...but they're learning to trust that I have some reason(s) for giving them the answer, and that I'll explain why later on. They're learning to trust that I love them and have their best interests at heart. >If I pray for rain (here in Seattle) and get it... is it the act of >God, or just the weather? Yes. -- ------------ The only drawback with morning is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day. ------------