Posted on 10/21/2004 11:21:01 AM PDT by newsgatherer
(n.) Nothingness; nihility.
(n.) The doctrine that nothing can be known; skepticism as to all knowledge and all reality.
(n.) The theories and practices of the Nihilists....
That aspect too often goes un-addressed among us. Even churches that are referenced in the New Testament reveal that many came not to believe from faith alone, but through their own works. When even an apostle preached the Word to them, they studied the written word to see if his words rang true. When they found that his teachings matched that of the prophets, they came to believe and were baptized. When you begin to work out your own faith through fear and trembling, you thus begin to work out your own salvation, you see?
What is this work? You begin with a question of one kind or another, and then progress to ""Lord, save me."" (Baptism is such a work. A work of faith.)
(Excerpt) Read more at christian-news-in-maine.com ...
You're kidding: right?
did you read it?
One only need read the first two to four paragraphs to know whatever merits this writer may have as a thinker are voided by his inability to express those thoughts, and pedantic tone. The only cliche he seems to have missed was "It was a dark and stormy night."
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