Posted by 64Bowtie on February 7, 2004, at 12:18:59
In reply to Re: Re: Why do I hear a Faith question, posted by rayww on February 7, 2004, at 8:41:52
I promise not to deminish you by discussing your beliefs. I may not trust the testimony-of-man that you trust. That could be my failing. Time will tell.
By age 15, I had done one to two page book reports on the literature of the Bible, all 72 books as established at the council of Nicea around 360 AD. 1100 years later that testimony was no longer valid. So new testimony was adopted, but never world wide, and only among 15% of mankind. I resist nothing I studied and I still don't. I can agree to disagree and still not resist. Jesus recommended we all do that when ever the time is right.
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>>>But to not define evil is like wearing blinders and pretending it does not exist.I had defined evil as...
<<<Earthling dysfunctional behavior is the only evil I see, over, and over, and over again. Some times man being evil to man when he doesn't really have to, is clearly evil. He is not evil. He does act evilly (if there is such a word). Do you quarrel that this man I make reference to is not evil because the devil goads him into evil acts?To the matter that man is not intrinsically evil, we obviously agree.
Isn't competency of the person accused of evil acts worth studying? Won't the devil tire with this man when he gets old and feable? Is it the devil who tricks Alshiemer patients into doing evil against another man? Is it the devil that causes a five yearold to pick his Dad's gun and shoot his three yearold sister? (or perhaps his Dad's dysfunctional "laziness" that caused him to leave the gun out in harm's way).
Evil is created in the image likeness of the dysfunctional behavior of mankind. There is no other direct/immediate evidence. I f man weren't here, who would speak up to define evil and point to its evidence?
Again I respect your vision of longing and wish you well on its' completion.
Rod
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