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proof of answered prayer.
Topic Started: May 25 2009, 03:43 AM (759 Views)
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Mike
May 29 2009, 04:19 AM
A question for the both of you. If the one you love the most is stricken with a serious medical condition is hospitalized. Would you appreciate me praying for them or not?
This topic died after both Chris and I answered your question, Padre.

I'd be curious what sort of answer you were expecting to receive assuming you were expected anything.

And, just to turn it around a bit, supposed that, under the same circumstances you defined, I offered to have a pure white bullock sacrificed on an altar to Jupiter. Would you appreciate the gesture?

If not, why not?
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Mike's a drive-by shooter. He tells you what he believes, but does not want to look any deeper at it. But then, how many people on forums are willing to deal with probing questions? Maybe one or two question deep before they reach the end of their thinking and get defensive.
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Jun 6 2009, 10:05 PM
Mike's a drive-by shooter. He tells you what he believes, but does not want to look any deeper at it. But then, how many people on forums are willing to deal with probing questions? Maybe one or two question deep before they reach the end of their thinking and get defensive.
I've noticed that.
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Maybe I expect too much.
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I think they give the best they can. If you are in a position where something HAS to be true or, as seems to be the case with the Padre, everything on which you've based your life falls apart, you don't spend a lot of time looking too deeply or with too critical an eye the foundations of your belief system.

New discoveries in science are exciting and offer new insights into how the universe is put together. The knocking down of theories is not to be feared, but embraced as man's horizons widen.

New discoveries in theology... well... I can't think of any.

Has theology advanced since Aquinas published his Summa back in the 13th Century?
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It advanced (?) to the dawn of Natural Theology, Paley and his watchmaker, based on Enlightenment thinking of a mechanical world. Then came Darwin. Christianity has been split ever since. Mike is split between his Social Gospel and God as Creator, Breeze is following early 20th century Fundamentals, a reaction against even Natural Theology, though he, in his zeal against Evolutionary Theory, doesn't know it--The Watchmaker is the modern Intelligent Designer.

But I don't just mean religionists, I mean anyone dogmatic about beliefs in religion or government.
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