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To: wmfights; Alamo-Girl; hosepipe; blowfish; kosta50; editor-surveyor; TXnMA
IOW, the harder science works to explain everything and disprove GOD, they actually do the reverse. Ultimately, all we have to do is insist on objectivity.

LOL!!! I have found that to be true as well, wmfights!

The difficulty is "objectivity" seems to be hard to come by these days; it seems many people either have something to sell, or an ax to grind....

Maybe that has something to do with the fact that the "objective" creation actually, in truth, was made by God -- and the dissenters know this very well, deep down. But they deeply resent having to acknowledge this, for "subjective" reasons. If you know what I mean....

To me, this is a flight from reality, from the very truth of being, in order to construct a "second reality," which cannot stand, because it is determined to exclude an indispensible sector of reality from its model. One cannot edit the world down into something more to one's liking without losing truth.

God will not be mocked. But humans will be deluded.

2,281 posted on 08/13/2007 6:14:43 AM PDT by betty boop ("Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." -- A. Einstein)
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To: betty boop; Alamo-Girl; hosepipe; blowfish; kosta50; editor-surveyor; TXnMA
The difficulty is "objectivity" seems to be hard to come by these days; it seems many people either have something to sell, or an ax to grind....

Boy oh boy isn't that the truth!

One cannot edit the world down into something more to one's liking without losing truth.

You can if you think of yourself as a coequal, or superior to, GOD. Our post modernist age allows us to elevate our "feelings" above TRUTH, because there is no absolute TRUTH it's all relative to us on a personal level.

2,288 posted on 08/13/2007 7:20:14 AM PDT by wmfights (LUKE 9:49-50 , MARK 9:38-41)
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To: betty boop; wmfights; hosepipe; blowfish; kosta50; editor-surveyor; TXnMA; xzins; P-Marlowe
Thank you oh so very much for your wonderful essay-posts!

God will not be mocked. But humans will be deluded.

Well and truly said, dearest sister in Christ!

In my view, some Christians have a weak or tender or provisional faith which demands some kind of physical evidence - very much like "doubting Thomas" saying he would not believe unless he could thrust his hand in Christ's side.

It is a sad situation when our brothers and sisters in Christ have more faith in the physical world than in God.

But doubting Thomas was an apostle, too. Christ chose him and helped him to believe. And we have the "mind of Christ" (I Cor 2.)

Therefore I assert we must be loving and patient and help one so situated to look and see and lift up his eyes to Christ.

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. - Colossians 3:1-3

If Trypho could help Justin Martyr - a wise man in the early Church - look and see then perhaps we could help a budding "Justin Martyr" too?

To God be the glory!

2,291 posted on 08/13/2007 7:25:15 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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