Posted on 12/18/2001 4:10:48 PM PST by Pokey78
Jesus Christ actually lived in history, was put to death on the cross, and rose from the tomb three days later to minister and instruct his disciples. That was the straightforward testimony of the brave and simple men who were his disciples, the testimony for which they were willing to die cruel deaths.
Islam denounces all of this as a vile heresy, condmens it as bald fiction, and calls for the death of any Muslim who would profess a belief in it.
Islam is antichrist.
"Hey, Ma. . . , Come quick! There's a guy who thinks the universe runs on logic!"
So, a speck of dust called a man, on a grain of sand called the earth, on an ovoid rock named The Milky Way, on an infinite beach termed The Universe, has taken it upon his own self to proclaim the logical fallacies of believing in anything beyond his understanding.
Kind of like an amoeba fancying itself the sum of all creation.
Then do we agree, Bill Clinton is a lunatic?
"What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour." Psalm 8:4-5
There is a mystery there, that it you were to glimpse even the smallest portion of it, you would be overwhelmed beyond speech.
Not too shabby, wouldn't you say?
There was a late holdover of Arianism in Christianity. The Visigothic Arians had developed certain liturgical peculiarities, along with the theological heresies. When they converted to true Christianity a compromise was made for their liturgical ideas, which became the Gothic Rite of the Church. Many true Christians who had been persecuted by the Arians objected to this and would not accept the Gothic Rite.
Most Christians felt that this liturgical concession was a small price to pay to finally destroy the vile Arian heresy. After Spain was conquered by the Moslems at the end of the 7th century, it lacked the strength to maintain the seperate Gothic Rite, which eventually disappeared, which is why Spanish Christianity was essentially identical with the rest of Western Christianity.
Yes, it has the ring of Muslim PR. The headline that "Muslims love Jesus as much as Christians" is a slap in the face in and of itself.
None of us are as bright as we think we are.
Fascinating.
And the adversary has been striving vigorously to destroy the flock ever since. Islam and Arianism were intended to displace genine Christian faith by offering or forcing acceptance of a counterfeit faith--one that would acknowldge the form of Jesus Christ while steadfastly denying the power. Because that power was made fully manifest in the resurrection, the resurrection had to be denied and denounced as vigorously and thoroughly as possible. Islamic rejection of the crucifixion and resurrection goes beyond ordinary rejection--it is a pathological rejection. And that pathology betrays the true nature and identity of the spirit that inspires it.
Not too shabby, wouldn't you say?
Thus spoke the chief of the rebel angels.
We're very good at amusing ourselves. I've a friend who holds about 35 different patents. He's an expert in the field of microprocessor technology and has invented items that allow our conversation via computer to take place as quickly as it does.
He's told me on a number of occasions that what we think of logic or illogic are in actuality human inventions. He claims that true logic is that which God wills. He also claims that he's relied on God's logic, not his own, when coming up with new ideas for inventions.
Obviously, he's not as bright as he thinks he is.
Not too shabby, wouldn't you say?
Thus spoke the chief of the rebel angels.
We're very good at amusing ourselves. I've a friend who holds about 35 different patents. He's an expert in the field of microprocessor technology and has invented items that allow our conversation via computer to take place as quickly as it does.
He's told me on a number of occasions that what we think of logic or illogic are in actuality human inventions. He claims that true logic is that which God wills. He also claims that he's relied on God's logic, not his own, when coming up with new ideas for inventions.
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