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From: aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent)
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Subject: Re: Re: Sub-human Christian attitudes - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 15-Feb-84 21:47:44 EST
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Thomas Ruschak writes (quoting me):

>   "Do it because I am the true God.  Do it because not giving it up will do
>  nasty things to you, quite apart from Me; if you set anything but Me up as
>   God, it will go sour on you, it will crack under the weight of being god,
>   which no one but I am strong enough to support, it will make you unhappy
>   NOT to give it up; but it will ultimately make YOU happy to go ahead and
>   give it up.  
> 
> Well, Jeff, If god told me that, I would still ask for reasons.

That is something I still do; but despite that, I will say that I have found
in many cases that it is only in hindsight that you see the reason(s) for
anything that God seems to be asking you to do.  Dr. Paul Tournier has said,
"If a person will not dare to risk being mistaken about the will of God, he
will never come to know God any better."  In other words, you have to go
ahead and take risks, give up security, give up even the security of knowing
why, in order to have any chance of receiving blessings.  No one's saying
this is easy (as witness the article I submitted about 24 hours ago).

> On the bright side, thanks for the reasonable tone of your article. Maybe
> I've been reading too much net.flame lately, but it struck me as a relief.

Thank you for the bouquet.  I usually try to present Christianity in a
reasonable light.  (Sometimes I feel as if there's a 3-way discussion in
this group, among the atheists, the fundamentalists, and me!)
-- 

-- Jeff Sargent
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