Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-h Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:aeq 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 Article-I.D.: pucc-h.1289 Posted: Wed Oct 3 03:34:15 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Oct-84 01:34:56 EDT Organization: Tucumcari Divinity School Lines: 17 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."