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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
625 Chelten Hills Drive
Elkins Park, PA 19027
_www.lisarudy.com_ (http://www.lisarudy.com/)
215-635-9735
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