Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!sun-barr!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: trondst@mack.uit.no (Trond S. Trondsen) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: a prayer for the dying Message-ID: Date: 26 May 91 05:59:07 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of Tromsoe, Norway Lines: 36 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article jmoon@lehi3b15.csee.lehigh.edu (Jonggu Moon [890911]) writes: >I didn't want to pray for a miraculous recovery because his kind of cancer >is terminal. > (...) > -jon The above quoted statement is a very proud statement. Who says that 'this kind of cancer is terminal'? A proud human mind (of a doctor maybe), a mind that limits God, and last but not least: a mind that calls God a liar. The sentence above bears witness of a human mind in unbelief, a mind that accuses God of not having done a good enough job, that Jesus didn't accomplish all that much after all. Past experience is not a very good measure of truth. People were shocked when Jesus raised people from the dead. It wasn't 'terminal' after all, to everybody's surprise. This is the same proud mind speaking that has no problem accepting that God created the universe, but has a VERY hard time indeed accepting that He was capable of doing it in 144 hours (6 days). (Our proud scientific mind calls God a liar, 'we know better'). The same proud mind that has no problems accepting that God raised Jesus from the dead, but has a HECK of a problem accepting the Virgin Birth. Worshipping a God which we limits to fit comfortably in our mind and in between our intellectual knowledge (e.g. 'God did it trough Evolution! Yeah, I'm comfortable with that. Yeah, it fits. YO!') is no better than carving him out in wood and bow down before'im. HUMBLE YORSELVES, GOOFS!! Love Trond