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To: Pietro
After all we're here today gone tomorrow, the veritable passing sunlight on a blade of grass.

Well then, I shouldn't worry much about what I believe or do, for how could it matter to a twinkle of light?

Does it matter what I believe? Does it matter what I do? Why?

Hank

174 posted on 09/30/2003 5:59:15 PM PDT by Hank Kerchief
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To: Hank Kerchief
Why?

I'm, glad you asked. Man's motion can be directed. God the Father has established the goal, Jesus Christ has laid out the path. If we walk w/ Christ our oscillations become eccentric about positive poles; life, good, being, etc.

This is necessarily a conscious, deliberate decision. And it requires effort on our part. The more the effort the closer we move towards becoming eternal. What greater purpose can there be?

Obviously not everyone sees it this way. Many have chosen to make no decision or have consciously disavowed the eternal. What can they be thinking?

178 posted on 10/01/2003 5:47:47 AM PDT by Pietro
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To: Hank Kerchief; Pietro; Alamo-Girl; Phaedrus; unspun
Does it matter what I believe? Does it matter what I do? Why?

Because you matter, Hank. Your thoughts, beliefs, and actions have consequences beyond your immediate, personal existence.

Pietro, your "i moving to I" is an extraordinarily beautiful and truthful insight. To refuse God's appeal to us essentially involves the refusal to be what we are.

199 posted on 10/03/2003 9:22:42 AM PDT by betty boop (God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world. -- Paul Dirac)
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