Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-h Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:aeq From: aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Re: Weird and wonderful idea Message-ID: <550@pucc-h> Date: Sat, 18-Feb-84 14:42:01 EST Article-I.D.: pucc-h.550 Posted: Sat Feb 18 14:42:01 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 20-Feb-84 07:17:34 EST References: <2538@azure.UUCP>, <548@pucc-h> Organization: Purdue University Computing Center Lines: 29 Clay Phippssent me what I consider the most uplifting of several similar replies I received to my long, painful article. His letter here follows: > Food for thought (I hope it is not taken harshly): > > Trusting in God should not mean that you sit back and take no risks, > expecting that God will do all the work and bear all the disappointmants > for you until he provides you with an unambiguous answer to your travail. > > God provided you with a heart and a mind. > Have you seriously considered acting on the idea that God > wants you to make decisions for yourself, without waiting for Him > to tell you what to do, or provide for your needs ? > Even Christ was tested; how can you be sure that He is not testing you ? Here's the best part: > Perhaps an allegory (parable ?) will help get my point across. > Do you seriously believe that if God wanted an athlete to win > some event in the Olympics, that the athlete should not train for that > event as rigorously as some one who did not have His support ? > Should that athlete just sit back and refuse to engage in any exercise, > on the rationale that he can have no effect on the outcome that He will > decree ? -- -- Jeff Sargent {allegra|ihnp4|decvax|harpo|seismo|teklabs|ucbvax}!pur-ee!pucc-h:aeq "Buy the truth and do not sell it; gain wisdom, knowledge, and understanding."