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- From: parker@ehsn17.cen.uiuc.edu (Robert S. Parker)
- Subject: Re: Something's Missing!?
- References: <C1462t.GJz@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan20.201852.25441@pwcs.stpaul.gov> <nyikos.727662374@milo.math.scarolina.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 05:00:29 GMT
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- nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
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- >In <1993Jan20.201852.25441@pwcs.stpaul.gov> chrisl@stpaul.gov (Chris A Lyman) writes:
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- >>cs225b26@eng-nxt09.cso.uiuc.edu (cs225 student) writes:
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- >>[--fire and brimstone sermon deleted--]
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- >>May I ask a question, as one God-fearing Christian to another?
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- >>Is God playing some kind of "gotcha"-type game? I mean, if
- >>getting or administering an abortion merited eternal damnation,
- >>don't you think God would have explicitly warned us?
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- >>Seriously,
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- >Does this mean you are not a God-fearing Christian?
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- >A yes answer requires no further explanation.
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- >A no answer, i.e. that you ARE a God-fearing Christian, does.
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- I don't see how that answer would require further explanation either. Could
- you explain why it does? Isn't God described as "good"? Isn't Satan the one
- described as trying to "trick" people? Why does someone believing in the
- *goodness* of God have to explain that goodness to others who believe in God?
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- >Peter Nyikos
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- -Rob, who *used* to believe in God.
-