(Corrie) wrote in message . com...
Let me repeat myself Mr. Zealot

just how prey tell was YOUR GOD refining HIS people
when those other teenage boys and girls were shot dead.
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May I predict....
No way will you ever receive an acceptable explanation.
Barnyard BOb --

Actually, I do expect to get an explanation someday, at that Great
Video Party in the Sky when all the questions get answered. Our
anonymous heckler seems to be hell-bent on refusing the invitation,
though.

Thanks for the support, Bob. I've had months-long running debates
with nonbelievers - most of them remarkable civil - and it boils down
to this: it is neither possible to prove nor disprove either the
existence or non-existence of God. There's plenty of supporting
evidence, but conclusive proof would preclude faith. And faith is
important.

I guess it's like the difference between building a plane and raising
a child. The airplane is a machine, and does only what it is designed
and built to do. The child is an independent being with free will of
his or her own. Your kids don't HAVE to love you. They have a
choice. Your VP1 hugs you because that's the way it's designed and
built. It doesn't have a choice.

You're quite right, Bob. If a person is determined to disbelieve,
then no evidence can possibly change their mind. Their worldview
forces them to either discount or reinterpret every piece of evidence
shown to them. Likewise, it's not possible to convince the informed,
thoughtful believer that they are wrong, because they can answer the
skeptics from within their worldview. (The skeptics may not be
satisfied with the answers, but that's not the point.)

I adopted a Christian worldview after a long period of study and
reflection, and after considering every oher major worldview (and a
few minor ones). My studies convinced me that Christianity is
coherent, explanative, predicitve, internally consistent, externally
verifiable, and even - like any good scientific hypothesis -
falsifiable.


Corrie




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I agree with you Corrie;
If you're wrong you have NOTHING to lose and EVERYTHING to gain.
If the "Scientist" is wrong he loses EVERYTHING! Eternity is a LOOOONG time!!

Bob Olds RV-4 flyer
Charleston,Arkansas

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