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From: aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: wishful thinking
Message-ID: <1289@pucc-h>
Date: Wed, 3-Oct-84 03:34:15 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  3 03:34:15 1984
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Organization: Tucumcari Divinity School
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Some of the non-Christians in this group have repeatedly stated that belief in
God is based on wishful thinking.  I differ with this idea.  If I had followed
wishful thinking, I might well have bailed out of Christianity many times over
the years, because I've wished that God weren't there or that He weren't the
kind of God He is -- one who loves us so much that He is determined to see us
cured of all our sins, shortcomings, and problems, no matter what the cost --
to Him, or to us.  However, "those whom God foreknew, He also predestined to be
conformed to the likeness of His Son", whether we like it or not.

In other words, wishful thinking is more likely to operate *against* belief in
Christ rather than in its favor.

-- 
-- Jeff Sargent
{decvax|harpo|ihnp4|inuxc|seismo|ucbvax}!pur-ee!pucc-h:aeq
"I'm not asking for anyone's bleeding charity."
"Then do.  At once.  Ask for the Bleeding Charity."