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- From: jwest@wisc (Jeff West)
- Subject: Re: THE MIND OF THE BIBLE BELIEVER
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- Date: 28 Dec 92 12:28:31 CST
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- muehlhau@en.ecn.purdue.edu (John Muehlhausen) writes:
- : In article <Bzw01t.7ED@dale.cts.com> npm@dale.cts.com (Nancy Milligan) writes:
- : >John Muehlhausen (muehlhau@en.ecn.purdue.edu) wrote:
- : >>
- :
- : Trusting God means trusting that all things work together for good for those
- : that love Him, and they happen for a reason. I would much rather live a
- : short life with cancer and let my increased awareness of my mortality light
- : a fire under my butt for God than to glide through life accomplishing
- : nothing with eternal consequence. God will not give someone something that
- : is not good for them in the long run. If a Christian is not healed of
- : cancer, then they have it for a reason that is beneficial to them as a
- : spiritual being, as promised in the Bible. Paul didn't whine about his
- : adversity, nor did Jesus himself! In fact, they seemed to shake a fare
- : amount of joy out of it!
- :
- :
- : John M.
- :
- :
-
- I just love these kind of rationalizations. NOT! Your a real piece
- of work John. I have nothing against what you believe. Faith or lack
- thereof in religion and god is a personal thing. But your above
- statement shows an * Incredible * lack of compassion and humanity!!!
- The statement that finally pushed me over the edge of considering
- myself a Christian anymore was after watching a beautiful 4 year old
- little girl go through the terrible torture of chemotherapy for cancer.
- After a long fight and spending most of her life knowing nothing but
- fear and pain people actually had (have) the gaul to say;
- "It was god's will."
- If this is your god and his idea of; "giving us something that's good
- for us in the long run." Then you can KEEP him and all of your assinine
- beliefs!
-
- Jeff "you really hit my hot button" West
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