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From: merrill@rex.DEC
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Subject: Getting Personal about God
Message-ID: <682@decwrl.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 22-Feb-85 08:58:23 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 22 08:58:23 1985
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> Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University Computation Center
> ARPA:	Tim.Maroney@CMU-CS-K	uucp:	seismo!cmu-cs-k!tim
> CompuServe:	74176,1360	audio:	shout "Hey, Tim!"

Tim, your quotes and your logic sound good to me; but it makes me wonder
if your feelings are being replaced by connections with computers?  How
would you feel if you Lost your login? became deaf? CompuServe thought
you were a deadbeat? ARPA tossed you off?  Probably the way I'd feel if
I thought God stopped answering prayers.


> Aargh!  I cannot possibly express how frustrated I get when I see people
> spouting nonsense that I had already seen through at age 12.

Your frustration is understandable, but why DO you feel so angry about it?
Does it feel better to be so condesending?


>In article <642@decwrl.UUCP> merrill@rex.DEC writes:
>> What if there were a Large Monolith discovered on one of the outer planets
>> that had engraved on it in 2000 earth languages "Greetings from God", would
>> that make it easier for you to believe in Him?  Would that make it too easy?
>
>I would wonder who was the practical joker.  Perhaps some alien?
>

Therefore it is logical that ANY "objective evidence" could be dismissed by
YOU as a practical joke.  Some of the people in Moses day must have
thought his miracles were some hacker's pranks. 

>Right there in the Bible are numerous purportedly undeniable miracles.
>Such as the opening of the Red Sea, etc.  Such as the stopping of the sun.
>Why should I insist on anything less?

When was the last time you ASKED Him for something "vital"?  


>> If you could choose HOW God would reveal himself to you personally,[...]
> If that happens to me, then I'll believe.  No sweat. [...]
> I don't see that I could distinguish Satan from God from any other
> sufficiently manipulative being.
> Mike Huybensz

Would you sincerely like people to pray for you, Mike? 

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Rick Merrill