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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: the Temptations (not a singing group)
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Date: Mon, 8-Apr-85 00:06:18 EST
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In article <450@cybvax0.UUCP> mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) writes:

>Here is a scenario.

>I ask JC to show me a miracle NOW.  He says that he doesn't produce
>performances on demand but that I should have seen miracle number 27 in
>the previous town.  JC travels to the next town and reports that I was
>convinced by his miracle number 28, but that he's not going to do another
>miracle right now.

>Yes, frauds do co-opt statements of others.  However, it would be odd for
>honest people to appear to use the same techniques it fraud would, as JC
>does.

Now wait a minute, take the thing in context!!!!  It IS Satan he is talking
to, after all.  Why shouldn't God refuse to work miracles for Satan?  Why
shouldn't he justify it with scripture?  Seems to me you are demanding to
see miracles on demand.  Isn't that just a wee bit presumptious?

Charley Wingate   umcp-cs!mangoe

Alleluia!  Christ is risen.
   -  The LORD is risen indeed.  Alleluia!