From: Don Winterstein (dfwinterstein@msn.com)
Date: Thu Oct 30 2003 - 04:59:16 EST
Moorad asks:
What would you do if there were an actual film of Christ resurrecting Lazarus or a film of Christ going through the resurrection process?
Not sure what you're aiming at here, but anyone who's seen a recent movie or two would almost certainly conclude that the film used "special effects" and did not show an actual resurrection. Film probably constitutes one of the least reliable forms of testimony for modern man: with a little effort you can make it show any imaginable thing convincingly. So this raises the perennial question as to what kind of testimony is convincing. Ultimately it's got to be spiritual testimony, not physical.
Don
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From: Alexanian, Moorad
To: Don Winterstein ; Dr. Blake Nelson
Cc: asa
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 7:35 AM
Subject: RE: A "God" Part of the Brain?
What would you do if there were an actual film of Christ resurrecting Lazarus or a film of Christ going through the resurrection process?
Moorad
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From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On Behalf Of Don Winterstein
Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2003 3:26 AM
To: Dr. Blake Nelson; Alexanian, Moorad
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Subject: Re: A "God" Part of the Brain?
Alexanian Moorad wrote in part:
"...Purely physical devices could also detect Christ, i.e., God."
To know Jesus from purely physical data is not to know him as God. Only if one sees him with spiritually enlightened eyes does one detect God. "The spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing." John 6:63.
So the fact that one of the persons of the Trinity has a physical body does not significantly change the rules for knowing God.
Don
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