Re: To refute Kelly decisively over Essenic Origin of the Christian Religion

"Ian Davis" <ijdavis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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David <pchristainsen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Feb 12, 11:25 pm, "<316>" <316k...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Feb 12, 3:37 pm, David <pchristain...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...
and I don't give a fig about
controlling you

Yeah, sure you don't.
...

I want you to be convinced FOR YOURSELF
and BY YOURSELF.


In that you are no different from the evangelists who also want to
impose
their views on others. Hardly the conduct of a "future" Quaker. I
don't
really understand evangelicals. Superficially, they want to convince
others of what they believe because they claim that this is what God
wants them to do, and they imagine they'll be awarded brownie points
if
they succeed.

That may be the motivation of some evangalists, but not others.

To some evangalists, life without God is like being lost and bewildered with
no direction and purpose, and life with God is truly a life-saving
experience. They feel that they've not only been given a compass, but a map,
and have found the path 'out of the wilderness' so to speak. Having
discovred this saving miracle, they think it would be the height of cruelty
*not* to tell everyone else who they believe still wandering lost inthe
wilderness about it. And I can see their point: not all evangalists are
doing it out of cognitive dissonance or for the 'brownie points' but out of
true concern for those they consider 'lost'. The problem is that because
they felt lost and bewildered before they found God, they assume everyone
else feels lost and bewildered, and would welcome their advice, never quite
realising that not everyone else without their brand of God actually feels
lost and bewildered and in need of 'saving'.

Yowie
--
If you're paddling upstream in a canoe and a wheel falls off, how many
pancakes can you fit in a doghouse? None, icecream doesn't have bones.


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