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From: kiki@isieng.UUCP
Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc
Subject: Re: Feminism and Abortion
Message-ID: <317@isieng.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 3-Oct-86 14:25:58 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  3 14:25:58 1986
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In article <5862@ut-sally.UUCP> raghu@sally.utexas.edu.UUCP (Raghu Ramakrishnan) writes:
>In article <311@isieng.UUCP> kiki@isieng.UUCP (Kiki Herbst) writes:
>>When one becomes a Christian many changes occur in his or her life.  
>>The biggest change is that God becomes the center of the person's life 
>>rather than self being the center.  
>
>Thank you for your helpful posting. I understand that one's attitude
>towards life - one's set of values - changes with the acceptance
>of a concept of God and a set of divinely inspired (and perhaps
>truly divine :-)) values.
>
>Clearly, this acceptance is an act of faith. If one does not make this
>act of faith, there are several alternative sets of values, including,
>in particular, that which gives pre-eminence to self-interest.
>
>On what basis can this set of values be compared to a God-given
>set of values? (You will immediately recognize, of course, that
>this basis cannot rest on faith.)
>
>- raghu

O.K.  Let's see if I can explain this....Here's an analogy to use as a
comparison, and one that is frequently used in the Bible.  That is that
God is our Father.  Now think of when you were young and you didn't know
what was right or wrong.  A lot of times you needed to find out from some
body who had more wisdom than a young child.  So you would ask your father
for advice or follow the role that your father set.  Now imagine the most
intelligent thing in existence which is God.  God knows the short-term and
the long-term results of our decisions in life because he is wise.  Often
times decisions are easy to make because they are easy choices.  But often
decisions we need to make aren't so easy, so it is necessary to get advice
from someone who is more intelligent--God.  So your original question about
why these values are different than those from God is this:  Often times
a decision that is made through God would be completely different if
decided by the *same* person without God in that person's life.  So as
God imparts his will on believers, those believers make decisions based
on God, not based on themselves.  But in the long run and often the short
run, those decisions are a lot more wise than decisions made merely by the
human mind.  

I hope that answers your question.  Have a good day!

Kiki