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- From: J.Hale@latrobe.edu.au
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- Subject: Re: * help *
- Message-ID: <Jan.28.04.00.12.1993.10948@athos.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 09:00:14 GMT
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- Organization: VAX Cluster, Computer Centre, La Trobe University
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- In article <Jan.26.04.49.50.1993.15187@athos.rutgers.edu>,
- cobb@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Mike Cobb) writes:
- > I am trying to discuss with someone the idea of the historicity of the gospels
- > and the trustableness(?) of Christianity in general. He wants to know why he
- > should accept the miracle accounts and the general historicity of the New
- > Testament and not accept miracle accounts in other books and/or religions. If
- > you can help, thank you, and if you want me to explain further, I would be
- > happy to do so.
-
- Well MAC,
- Belief is one of those funny things, either you have it or you don't.
- It does not lend itself to argument.
- Yes you can accept intellectually what someone has to say but that, albeit a
- start perhaps, does not make belief.
- So you may receive some good intellectual arguments to help "convince" your
- friend but it will only be a head trip (is this showing my age or what?)
- How about telling him how you came to accept what ever it is that you want him
- to accept. What comes from you will have more power than all the "supplied"
- arguments that you can possibly muster. It may not convince him, nothing will
- if he is unwillingly to be convinced, but it will be some experience for both
- of you.
-
- In Christ
-
- James
-
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- Computing Unit La Trobe University,Bundoora, AUSTRALIA
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- "The grace of God rests gently on forgiving eyes,
- and everything they look on speaks of Him to the beholder.
- He can see no evil, nothing in the world to fear,
- and no one who is different from himself."
- Text, P 418
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