On 07/13/16, Daryl Stout said the following...
DS> Gr> In the news right now, Ken Ham has built an ark according to the
DS> Gr> specifications found in your bible. That boondoggle has claimed $18
DS> Gr> million dollars of public, tax payer money. Kentucky is not a rich
DS> Gr> state, and that money, instead of feeding the poor, or giving service
DS> Gr> to those in need, is now going as an offering to a snake-oil salesman
DS> The actual Ark is on Mount Ararat. I would refer you to a tract on
DS> that, but your postings show me that you are not at all interested in
DS> The Gospel. I feel that I am casting pearls before swine in trying to
DS> witness to you, when you obviously have no interest in the Gospel.
I'm interested in the gospel if it can be backed up by actual fact, and not
the offerings of mortal, fallible men like yourself. If the ark is on mount
ararat, then where is it?
DS> Gr> People of your faith are driving a wedge between all of our peoples a
DS> Gr> biblically calling for sanctioned discrimination against people who
DS> Gr> their faith tells them to hate.
DS> How many times do I have to tell you that GOD MADE THE RULES, and that
DS> man's laws will NEVER supercede God's Laws??
How many times do I have to tell you that we have only your opinion on what gods
rules are? I don't care about opinion. I care about fact! You have shown me
nothing but hearsay.
DS> Gr> People of your faith who pray to your god, are foregoing medical aid
DS> Gr> lieu of prayer for their critically ill children. The news is rife
DS> Gr> with reports of parents who let their children die, in some cases ALL
DS> Gr> their children die, from a easily treated illness. Because they chos
DS> Gr> to pray instead of seek medical attention.
DS> Jesus Christ is The Great Physician, and the ULTIMATE healing for a child
DS> of God, is to be called home to Heaven. He can choose to heal them
DS> physically, or not. And, His Divine Will is going to be accomplished,
DS> whether mankind likes it or not.
You see, that doesn't sit well with me at all. That is just... wrong.
There's nothing else to say about it. I'm a humanist. I believe that people
should not be made to suffer and die, especially when it can be prevented.
DS> Those who have died in the faith are RIGHT NOW enjoying the joy and bliss
DS> of Heaven, with no sorrow, pain, cares of this life, sin, etc. He will
DS> bring these souls with Him at the Rapture, to receive their new
DS> resurrection bodies. God's ways are NOT our ways, and many times, people
DS> become bitter toward God, because
Ah, to be in blissful ignorance. It's like shroedinger's cat. Is the cat in
the box alive or dead? But like shroedinger's cat, we will never know until
we open the box. So declaring that they are 'enjoying the bliss of heaven'
is just your opinion, isn't it?
Gods ways are not our ways. Just let that sink in for a minute.
DS> they thought "He gave them a bum steer", by "letting their loved one
DS> die".
DS> When, in the space of a year, I lost in death, my grandmother-in-law,
DS> my father, my wife, my best man, and nearly lost my brother in a freak
DS> motorcycle wreck, I could've been bitter, folded up my tent, and been
DS> gone within 2 weeks...but I resolved "that's not for me". God still has
DS> me here on Earth for a reason. I wasn't bitter about these going to be with
DS> The Lord...their work on Earth was done. And, I know that either by death
DS> or Rapture, mine will be as well.
I'm sorry for your loss. I truly am. I'm glad you're not bitter.
DS> Yet, as the Apostle Paul notes "Eye hasn't seen, ear hasn't heard, or has
DS> entered into the heart of man...the things that God has prepared for those
DS> who love Him". I know Christians who died and went to Heaven, and were
DS> brought back to Earth, to witness to The Power Of God, and what is
DS> in store for the believers. When Paul was stoned to death in Lystra, he was
DS> taken to Heaven, and saw the Glory of Heaven...but he was forbidden
DS> to reveal them to us, saying "it's not lawful for a man to utter".
Again, relying on hearsay testimony is not going to make me think that your
beliefs are true.
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