Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxi!mhuxa!houxm!hocda!spanky!burl!we13!ihnp4!ihuxm!prgclb
From: prgclb@ihuxm.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Paradise revisited
Message-ID: <307@ihuxm.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 28-Jun-83 11:22:41 EDT
Article-I.D.: ihuxm.307
Posted: Tue Jun 28 11:22:41 1983
Date-Received: Wed, 29-Jun-83 08:43:31 EDT
Lines: 18

Cliff Morgan's report of Dr. Eby's "life after death"
experience suggests that ardent non-Christians may get
the chance to know Christ in life-threatening situations
when someone else offers intercessory prayer.
I do not want to confirm or deny Cliff's reports,
but I do wonder how such a claim can be reconciled
with the doctrine of election, as subscribed to by
people of the Reformed denominations (e.g. Presbyterians).
This doctrine maintains that people who become Christians
have been so ordained by God since before the beginning.
Perhaps the unusual experiences cited by Cliff are
among the ways that God reconciles certain of his
"elect" to Christ.

				Carl Blesch
				Bell Labs - Naperville, Ill.
				IH 2A-159, (312) 979-3360
				ihuxm!prgclb