> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mccarrick Alan D CRPH
> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 10:49 AM
> To: 'alexanian@uncwil.edu'
> Subject: FW: Debate
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mccarrick Alan D CRPH
> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 10:48 AM
> To: 'Moorad Alexanian'
> Subject: Debate
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> Moorad,
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> I usually enjoy your posts, and your Christian worldview.
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> Regarding your upcoming debate. I often think of Phil Johnson's traveling show with Will Provine. Apparently, Johnson has developed a real friendship with Provine even though they are miles apart in worldview. If you can, maintain a compassion toward your opponent as a fallen man made in God's image and still worthy of respect. That attitude should leave the audience with an perhaps unspoken impression of the love of God. When Christ's words led to the "rich young ruler" walking away, the Bible says that Jesus was saddened.
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> Remember the passage in Romans where Paul says that even though the evidences of God's power and glory are plainly evident, unregenerate man will turn around and worship the creation itself rather than the creator. What convinces the believer is of little consequence to the unbeliever.
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> Unfortunately God chooses not to make only good things happen to His people and bad things happen to the others. (Remember when the plagues in Egypt avoided the Hebrews !) Augustine (City of God) talked about the suffering that both the believer and unbeliever suffer. He points to the reaction to that suffering that is the real difference between the two peoples.
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> A pretty good book that you could browse through is Evidence That Demands a Verdict, but I forget the author.
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> Al McCarrick
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