Re: What Theists Can't Answer

In article <46a36c37$0$30656$4c368faf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 "CB" <CB@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Heh...your enlightenment questions the motives of the Creator. That's
ok, 
> it's your inalienable right to be free and your right to choose.

If you never question them, how are you to understand them.  If you never
understand them, how can you know His will?  If you do not know his will,
how can you do it?

> > You misunderstand my comment.  God is not something to be derided as
> > we slowly discover that the OT is not *literally* true.  Many
> > Christians have the ability to ignore facts in evidence.  They operate
> > on Faith.  The trouble is, Faith once taught us that the earth was the
> > center of the universe, that mental illness was demonic possession,
> > that disease was retribution from God or a curse by Lucifer.
> 
> You must be really easy to manipulate then. With sound Biblical teaching
one 
> may know both right from wrong and the wisdom of deduction.
> 
> You've heard the saying, what comes around, goes around. Isn't there
some 
> truth to that? I believe that only through God's grace goes I. If His
grace 
> should leave or even waver, bad things happen.
> 
Bad things will happen to you anyway.  You're slated to die.  In
all likelihood, it will be from a debilitating and horrific illness
that will strip from you all semblance of dignity.  (This it the reality 
for most people in modern societies.)  If you don't die soon, you're 
slated to suffer the loss of those you love before you die.

Your life will entail suffering, no matter whether you are good or bad,
regardless of your relation****p with God.  All you can hope for from God
is that you may bear it with greater hope and perseverance than you 
might have without your faith.