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Subject: Re: response to anti-religious flame - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 16-Mar-84 21:14:27 EST
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ecn-ee!kechkayl    Mar 16 18:49:00 1984


1.  Humans are more than just logic.  Note, however, that belief in God is not
    irrational, but rather, shall we say, trans-rational or supra-rational.
    As I've said in other articles in various groups, Christ appeals to the
    whole person, not only the mind, and also not only the emotions.

Translation: "Christ appeals to the irrational part of the human psyche."
Doesn't sound so good that way, does it? Semantics is everything.

2.  The reason I continue to believe in God is that there is evidence that He
    does exist.  He has changed me vastly.  In the years I have been a
    Christian, I have been enabled (via prayer, the ultimate psychotherapy,
    and via the ministry of other people) to become much more fully human than
    I was, say, 10 years ago.

Do you believe in Richard Simmons?? I know many people who will say that 
they are much more fully human because they have been watching him for years.
They tend to think of him as the ultimate psychotherapy, too.

    I don't believe in Santa Claus because I don't
    see evidence of his existence.  But there's lots of evidence of God's
    existence--and I don't mean just the changes in my life and those of
    others.  I suggest you might want to read two books by Josh McDowell
    entitled "Evidence that Demands a Verdict" and "More Evidence that
    Demands a Verdict", which discuss how archaeological findings, prophecies
    fulfilled in specific detail, and other factors add up to considerable
    evidence that God does exist.

I cannot comment on these particular books, but then, how do YOU know that
Richard Simmons isn't the Almighty??? How do you know?

					Thomas Ruschak
					ecn-ee!kechkayl