From: Debbie Mann (deborahjmann@insightbb.com)
Date: Sun Apr 20 2003 - 19:49:14 EDT
The gullibility is scary. It can manifest itself as a kind of Mob mentality.
When I was in elementary school, a woman saw the image of Jesus in her
screen door. (Pt. Neches, Tx c. 1967). It hit the papers, people flocked
from all over and destroyed every flower bed in the vicinity. Contrast these
with people who would find a 'logical explanation' for an avalanche suddenly
screeching to a halt 2" in front of them on an icy slope. Which is worse? To
make Christians and therefore Christianity seem foolish by mindless faith
and mysticism or to make it seem totally irrelevant by reducing God to a
museum piece?
He is risen, indeed, in our hearts and in our lives though probably not on
our screen doors.
-----Original Message-----
From: Don Winterstein [mailto:dfwinterstein@msn.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2003 1:44 AM
To: Debbie Mann; Dick Fischer; Asa
Subject: Re: Evidence of The Flood
Debbie Mann wrote:
>…There have been fish and other sea creature fossils found in some very
high and unusual places. I would guess that these are much too old to have
come from The Flood, but for a creationist who believes that nothing is
older than a few thousand years, that would seem like pretty convincing
evidence.
I've seen a fair number of mountaintop marine fossils. They certainly
exist. However, the fossils were embedded in dipping formations that could
be traced to locations miles below the surface in some adjoining basin.
It's pretty obvious to one who has an open mind and who has looked at the
details that the mountaintop fossil beds had reached their current heights
by being uplifted. The animals now fossilized there were never living at
those heights.
What continues to amaze me is the gullibility of those who believe
"nothing is older than a few thousand years." It seems to take very little
for them to find evidence "pretty convincing." It makes one wonder: Were
Jesus' disciples also so gullible? Jesus sometimes appeared to encourage
credulity. Today the obvious gullibility of so many believers in itself
tests the faith of those who possess a streak of skepticism. One might wish
Jesus had not praised faith without evidence as much and encouraged careful
discrimination more. Gullibility obviously cuts two ways: Might not those
who eagerly embrace truth without evidence also eagerly embrace falsehood
without evidence?
Not a suitable Easter message, but as George says, this isn't a perfect
world. The reality is that the manifest gullibility of so many diminishes
the message of Easter for those who would like to believe but can't.
Don
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