Trescow-
>I find this to be interesting. Why do you feel that way? Would something
>created by God only convey one message to every person? Why?
Mike-
Well, I suppose he could convey 5.5 billion different messages to 5.5 billion
different people, but that opens up an entirely new can of worms. If
everybody got a different message, then how could person A ever turn to person
B and say, "what you just did was wrong"? Nothing would be standard. There
would be no fixed set of rules. It also invalidates the need for a church.
Doesn't the church try to standardize beliefs, methods of worship, lifestyles,
etc.? What was that creed those nuns drilled into my brain every day I went
to Catholic school?
I believe in the father almighty, creator of heaven and earth, of all that is
seen and unseen. I believe in the communion of saints, the forgivness of
sins, etc etc...
If all you had to do was sit down, read the bible, and see what message it
conveyed to you, then there would be no need for priests, or pulpits, or
popes. They couldn't possibly know what your "secret message" was.
Mike Vaujin
movaujin@stpete.honeywell.com
The first great step towards progress, is, for man to cease to be the slave
of man; the second, to cease to be the slave of the monsters of his own
creation.
Robert Ingersoll