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Subject: Re: ARE YOU REALLY A CHRISTIAN?

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Keith

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Date Posted: 09:17:23 10/10/07 Wed
In reply to: Pahu 's message, "ARE YOU REALLY A CHRISTIAN?" on 15:27:27 09/13/07 Thu

You are half-correct Frank. The Bible teaches a form of dualism: concurrent free-will AND a soveriegn Creator who maintains absolute control over His creation and the outcome. The Bible also postulates that you and I are mere creatures with extremely limited comprehension. Nowhere in the Bible is there any attempt to indulge our wavering intellects. It is pretty clear that mankind can bareley agree on the basics of life, let alone get along with each other (the world is once again unravelling toward global war again)

We're free to ignore the obvious; that an intelligent designer has orchestrated an ingeinetly complex and harmonius life system that we find only on earth. We cannot create life, matter, or energy. The Bible explains say we are free to choose to worship or reject the Creator - IT IS OUR CHOICE.

To be fair, God gaifted us with an incredible document (the Bible) of which more than 25% is prophetic (predictive and testable). Additionally, the Bible is open to inspection based on historical and present evidences (Israel, Middle East, Big Bang). With over 25000 original NT manuscripts plus Dead Sea Scrolls, the Bible is the best documented and most studied, and most attacked in all of human history. More important, when obeyed, the Bible transforms people driven by their desires into more loving, and peaceful people. I see it with criminal prisoners and broken families everyday. And as the world watches Israel, Iran, and the middle east, we have propheices galor that are a playbook showing us that God is on control. Those who know and obey God have no need to fear the disasters and war (judgement) that are only a few years down the road for you and I.

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