Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: burt@sequent.uucp (Burton Keeble) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: a prayer for the dying Message-ID: Date: 4 Jun 91 02:53:32 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc Lines: 53 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article trondst@mack.uit.no (Trond S. Trondsen) writes: >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. > Whoops, all he said was that "his kind of cancer is terminal". meaning 'terminal' from our limited *human* viewpoint. Your inference is un- qualified..........I think. 8-). (stuff deleted) >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. > Again, I don't agree with the condemning tone. SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT GOD Understanding God is like trying to understand Nature. We can develop tools with which we can better observe the complexity of the microscopic and macroscopic extremes of our universe. But that is all we can do; observe. We cannot really understand the miracles of the universe. So it is in trying to understand the purpose of our Creator; we can only experience his Grace and guess as to the purpose. And so, I would argue that evolutionary theory is supported by hard evidence. I would also argue that evolution is no less divine for its discovery. And most importantly, I doubt that God cares whether we believe He took 160 hours, or 160 million+ years to accomplish Creation. >HUMBLE YORSELVES, GOOFS!! To goof is human. burt@sequent.sequent.com > > >Love >Trond