Re: Call me a fideist

I find the question definitely relevant. Perhaps it has something to do with our being surrounded in our respective places of employment by confessing atheists and largely silent Christians. After a while we start to see all questions in the atheist's frame.

--Although I think you too heavily weight certain obscure or dead religions. (Jupiter? You can't be serious.) If God is who we believe he is, then surely we've got to believe the true religion would be a major, living religion. That is, I for one can't believe God is so narrow as to save only an infinitesimal "remnant." It's hard enough to behold all those beautiful Chinese faces or experience those wonderful Indonesian smiles while simultaneously consigning them all mentally to hell.

And as one who's lived a long time in that atheist's frame, I'm acutely aware of the human capacity for misinterpreting one's own experience. I am skeptical of myself, but my witness is that God has the power to overcome self-skepticism also.

Don

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Glenn Morton<mailto:glennmorton@entouch.net>
  To: 'Don Winterstein'<mailto:dfwinterstein@msn.com> ; asa@calvin.edu<mailto:asa@calvin.edu>
  Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2005 2:54 AM
  Subject: RE: Call me a fideist

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  From: Don Winterstein [mailto:dfwinterstein@msn.com]
  Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2005 4:17 AM

   I see no satisfying answer to your persistent--and relevant, I might add--questions short of taking the route I took: Get confirmation directly from the Source.

  GRM: Thanks for at least saying the question is relevant. The way the debate was going, I didn't think anyone actually thought it was relevant. You may be right about how such things must be solved, but given mankind's ability for self delusion, I hope not.

   
Received on Mon May 30 05:57:38 2005