Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cbscc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbsck!cbscc!swc From: swc@cbscc.UUCP (Scott W. Collins) Newsgroups: net.religion.christian Subject: Re: Maltheism: Dave Clark, Scott Collins Message-ID: <5848@cbscc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 6-Sep-85 09:08:20 EDT Article-I.D.: cbscc.5848 Posted: Fri Sep 6 09:08:20 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 7-Sep-85 07:32:13 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories , Columbus Lines: 46 ~ Paul Zimmerman addressed some issues regarding my recent posting. The most curious item was this: > From: pez@pyuxn.UUCP (Paul Zimmerman) > Subject: Maltheism: Dave Clark, Scott Collins > > To top it off, Scott says that he fears being poisoned by the bad fruit of > common sense, fearing that he might stop believing if he made use of such > sense. I had wrote: >> The point here is that I am naturally concerned that I might >> be poisoned by bad fruit (common sense). I can see how he could view the aside, "(common sense)", to be a descriptor of what I meant by "bad fruit". Perhaps I should have said, "...bad fruit; this is common sense.". My apologies to those who took it this way and were appalled. My prayers are with those who do think that common sense is bad fruit since God gave us minds of intellect and reasoning. Still, I find it sad that Paul chose to interpret my sentence the way he did without considering the other, more positive meaning that could be attributed to it. Maybe he feels more of a "stranger" to this world than any Christian... (too bad he can't become a stranger to this news group on occasion :-). > That says all there needs to be said about how the evil Damager-God > introduces the true poison into people's minds for His own evil ends. Indeed it does as in your case as above. However, you are turned around on the term Damager-God, as others have pointed out. he is called Satan. Rather than keeping your back to the true, living, loving God and facing Satan (your Damager-God), consider looking over your shoulder for a change. > Be well, Why, thank you. And you, too, Paul. Scott W. Collins "Egads! Who changed all my file permissions to '666'?"