Re: clinton surgery question

From: Happy Dog (happydog_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 09/27/04


Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 01:08:08 -0400


"MU" <munospam@fastmail.fm> wrote in message
news:zr6rry202wox.1bf5myuoog3ox$.dlg@40tude.net...
> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 20:08:35 -0400, Happy Dog wrote:
>
>> You said that reward and punishment are not meted out in the afterlife.
>> (I
>> said this was an assumption and you said it was incorrect.)
>
> Never said that.

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>>> This silly rhetoric presumes that
>>> all rewards and punishments are meted out in the afterlife.
>>
>> No, you made that incorrect assumption.

> It's incorrect? You know this how, MU? And, if not reward or punishment
> in
> the afterlife, what possible reason for horrible things happening to good
> people or the opposite?

I know this through God's teachings and the *intimate* reasons for His Plan
(why this and that) I don't have any real knowledge nor should I. Nor do I
need to.

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>>> One can be
>>> skeptical without the need to know; you confuse "desire to know" with
>>> need
>>> to know. I desire to know, and will, someday but I have no need to know
>>> until then. God's Plan.
>
>> A skeptic who doesn't need to ask questions? How cute.
>
> I ask questions. Read more carefully.

Like what? Nme one question you'd ask thats skeptical of christian beliefs.
>
>> So much for skepticism. Anyone with a skeptical bone would ask why
>> Christian adherents are in the minority. But you just don't care to
>> know.
>
> Correct. Lemmings running off cliffs are in the majority at that time. A
> better question is why is it that you find the need to be in the majority
> to be right?

I don't Why does a different message get through to more "faithful"? Don't
you wonder?
>

>> So why do people of different
>> faiths get different messages? How do you know that yours is true?
>
> Satan has his hand in this world for one. I know mine is true because God
> has been kind enough to reaffirm me with increasing amounts of faith and
> comfort in His Plan.

Good thing he like you, I guess. And, since most faithful get a different
message, satan must be doing a better job than jesus.

>> Yes you do mu mu. It's the real version of universal reality that the
>> faithful, oops, Christian faithful, understand. But, like I said, can't
>> explain in a rational way to skeptics or non-believers.
>
> Difficult to explain something to someone who hasn't the tools to
> understand. And you won't get those tools from God until you ask for them.

More people than Christians have asked for them and received a different
message. why?
moo



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