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From: aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent)
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Subject: Re: Re: Weird and wonderful idea
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Date: Sat, 18-Feb-84 14:42:01 EST
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Clay Phipps  sent 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
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