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From: iannucci@sjuvax.UUCP (iannucci)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Why does SHE believe...
Message-ID: <877@sjuvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 20-Feb-85 14:54:41 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 20 14:54:41 1985
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Organization: St. Josephs University, Phila. PA.
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In article <329@teklds.UUCP> larryg@teklds.UUCP (Karen Clark) writes:

>
>There is only one reason and ONE REASON ONLY to believe in Jesus.  
>

             She's really right, you know.


>I have met Him and talked to Him and experienced HIM in my life.
>
>Everything else outside of experiential knowledge is falling short
>of a true relationship with God and obviously will not stand up to
>attack.
>
>karen


                 Tell us what he's like, Karen.  I'm not being a 
wise-ass either.  I think that anyone who has been in the presence
of the Almighty should share that experience with others. What does
he look like? What did you talk to him about?

"Well, I didn't actually *meet* him. That's just a figure of speech."
                                       [PREDICTED RESPONSE]

Then what WAS the experience, and how can you defend yourself against
a charge that what you encountered was not, in fact, a transcendent
Otherness, but only a projection of your mind?  I realize that these
are not new arguments, but I'd  be interested to know what you have
to say.

     I will concur with you that to believe in [God,Jesus] for any
other reason than personal experience is reprehensible. But I question
the validity of the experience. 

-- 
David J. Iannucci (the dirty vicar)                   St. Joseph's University
{allegra | astrovax | bpa | burdvax}!sjuvax!iannucci             Philadelphia

"A witty saying proves nothing. "                                  --Voltaire
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