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

"Ian Davis" <ijdavis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <6vmdm7Fl1t5fU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Yowie <yowie9644.DIESPAMDIE@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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'.


Yes, I unfairly stereotyped some by my description of many. My
experience derives from when I was in university associating with
evangelicals who were mere kids my own age. My experience back then
was that those who had been most affected by their beliefs, seemed
the ones least likely to want to brag about it. They had a depth,
and didn't as readily wear their hearts on their sleeves. Perhaps
their experiences had made them the humbler rather than the more
arrogant. They were perhaps as consequence more reserved in the
casting of pearls before swine.

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.


If you keep including this trailer on all your posts eventually I'm
going to ask you what it means. I must be dislexic or something
because all the words seem to be in entirely the wrong order, and to
make no sense. I've
a feeling that mere rearranging might result in something quite
profound but the number of permutations of the above make it a riddle
with no solution if one lacks the key with which to solve it.

Its a nonsense riddle. I just found it funny and worthy of a .sig. Think
Alice in Wonderland I guess :-)

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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