> There are lots of people who are nuts and still have intellectual value.
> Look at Jim Carrey, Adam Sandler, Robin Williams, et al.
>
> Its not a NEED to recognize there is a supernatural cause for us. It's
> common sense. People get caught up in the fact that there is things
> like cancer, natural disasters, worm holes, black holes, newly formed stars,
> extinction
> level events (like the dinosaur killer) and think 'this is all a product of
> chance.' But, I tell you what, anybody that deals with chance on a day
> to day basis...such as gambling...can tell you that results are pretty
> predictable and nothing 'amazing' ever happens. Yet, on a day to day
> basis, scientists are discovering more and more about our universe
> that just floors them. How did all the physics of the universe come
> into play.
> Someone asked ealier "...then who created God." It says in the
> scriptures...I am Alpha and Omega.... I am without beginning and
> without end.
>
> Did anyone ever stop to think that He created all of these wonders so
> that you HAD to have faith? That is the whole plan of salvation. TO
> come to earth, gain a body, through faith live his plan and be as
> Christ-like as possible, then return to him. It is too easy today to say
> 'when you die its just blackness.....dark and nothing.' Nobody has
> faith anymore. People want to see God on CNN or they won't believe.
> People go out and do whatever they please with no consequences for their
> actions. Does everyone really think that our sole purpose in the universe
> is to just take up space for a fraction of a microsecond of time then
> become fertilizer for an eternity of other space-takers? Give up their
> atoms to become the building blocks for 80 billion amoeba or whatever.
> People say "if there is a God then show me proof!" But woudn't that
> defeat the purpose of His plan? That was lucifers plan! He said 'Let
> me go to earth, EVERYONE will be saved no matter what...but let
> all the GLORY be MINE!" GOd said 'NO WAY!' and sent Christ who
> said 'through faith and my sacrifice, all men MAY be saved, and all
> the GLORY will be THINE!'
>
> If everyone would spend just a fraction of the time they spend attacking
> religion on learning more about God's plan, we would have a much
> better world to live in.
One cannot create deity in a physical universe with a moral argument.
The Beach Boys singing "Wouldn't it be nice..." is neither
sufficient nor relevant.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: C.A. Cook <coreycook12@email.msn.com>
> To: virus@lucifer.com <virus@lucifer.com>
> Date: Thursday, June 18, 1998 12:52 AM
> Subject: Re: virus: Virus: Opinions?
>
>
> >Johnny wrote:
> >>Well, I happen to think that anyone that can look at us, the earth, the
> >>universe, etc and still think it all happened by chance is nuts.
> >
> >That is a very antagonistic position to take. Just randomly dismissing
> >the intellectual value of anyone based on the sole variable that they do
> >not recognize the need for a supernatural cause for us.
> >
> >CA Cook, LF
> >coreycook12@email.msn.com
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