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Subject: Living In Denial

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Date Posted: 06/18/05 2:14pm

Christians are living in denial.
Christians are examples of the statement that Jack Nicholson
made in the movie "A Few Good Men". "You can't handle the
truth."
A big emphasis in the born again church is that God so loved
the world that He sacrificed His only Son to pay the price
for mankinds sins. The truth is that mankind was and is
born automatically with sin because of what the woman did
FIRST in the garden and what the man did second. Having
what they did put on us would be like everyone in the world
being found guilty of what Timothy McVeigh did. He commited
the crime but we'd been convicted of it. They commited
the sin, we've had it put on us.
The other thing is that there are so many people hurting in
the world. We're told by the born again christian people
that we don't know what God's reason for allowing it is.
There is no good reason for letting small children, some of
whom can't even talk, suffer they way they are. There is
no good reason for letting elderly people in nursing homes,
some of whom are nothing more then vegtables, suffer the way they are.
And most of the suffering is blamed on MAN. But they TRUTH
is that God is allowing it and He CAN stop it.
I am going to say one more thing. I remember reading some-
thing on a christian site that pretty much says it all when
it comes to the suffering in the world and God having the
ability to stop it. Someone wrote that the bible says that
God is like our earthly father when it comes to punishing us
when we do something wrong. Our earthly father, because he
loves us, would punish us for doing something wrong. And
God, because He loves us, punishes us when we do something
wrong. But our earthly father,because he loves us,would use
everthing within his power to stop our suffering. If he
told us to do something that would stop our suffering and
for some reason we didn't do it, he would not say well I
told you what to do and you didn't do it. No, he would not
allow us to continue to suffer just because we didn't do
wha he told us. HE would stop the suffering.
I'm only going to say one more thing.
I am a born again christian.
But I am not living in denial.

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Replies:

Subject	Author	Date
Living in examination.	Wade A. Tisthammer	06/20/05 10:53am
Ignoring the Bible -- Ben, 06/20/05 12:46pm Re; Ignoring the bible. -- QUITTNER, 06/21/05 8:54am Examining the Bible (again) -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 06/23/05 2:36pm Denile -- Mredd, 06/17/06 2:57am