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To: TomSmedley
So none of the earth's organised religions/beliefs originated here on earth?
140 posted on 12/11/2002 12:31:44 PM PST by stuartcr
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To: stuartcr
So none of the earth's organised religions/beliefs originated here on earth?

Good question, thanks for pitching me a softball! The vast majority of the earth's organised belief structures are anticipations, echoes, reflections, distortions, and/or perversions of Biblical Christianity. For example, the Hindus came up with little blue sterile Krishna soon after the Christian gospel began making progress in India!

The covenant-making, self-revealing Creator of the universe is delighted in by His elect. The reprobate, however, have full-time jobs deliberately suppressing the obvious. As Christian apologist Francis Shaefer said, "If there was one button that you could push to shut out the knowledge of God, that is the button that fallen man would press continuously."

Or, as an even more influential writer, C S Lewis, put it in his children's novel The Magician's Nephew, "The problem with trying very hard to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you all too often succeed."

166 posted on 12/11/2002 1:32:35 PM PST by TomSmedley
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