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There is a fundamental difference in people who teach, and people who
preach....whether a scientist, believer in God, addict, ruler of the
free world, or whatever.

I teach science to everybody who wants to learn and thinks it's cool,
but I don't preach personal beliefs to anyone.

This line of conversation is getting a bit heavy here.

--Jeff--

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Subject: Re: Evolution, Creation, can we please move on?

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This makes it sound like faith is a matter of choice: "I pick
Christianity!" 
 But isn't faith considered to be a matter of grace?   And isn't "true" 
religion more than just a logical decision to pick the safer  option?  
 
That is... you can't access salvation simply by virtue of  thinking
"gee, 
logically my eternal soul (assuming I have one) is worth more  than the 
opportunity to state that there is no God.  So...  I'll just  do the
logical thing and 
hedge my bets!"
 
In other words: religious faith isn't a matter of reason.  Never was,
never 
will be.  And I think that is, to some degree, the point of this  whole 
conversation.  If logic and reason (and science) could provide us  with
all the 
answers, this conversation would be moot!  (And on a related  note: I'm
not at all 
convinced that religious faith IS a "safer" route: there  are plenty of 
people who find a leap of faith to be the most difficult thing  they've
ever done!)
 
Lisa
 
 

What if  the person who says there is no God is wrong?  What if science
is not  all there is?  What if the bible is true and God is real?   What
have they lost?  If the person who says there is no God is wrong,  they
have lost their eternal soul.  


 
 
 
Lisa Jo Rudy, Writer/Consultant
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Elkins Park, PA 19027
_www.lisarudy.com_ (http://www.lisarudy.com/) 
215-635-9735

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