RE: petition to amend ASA Constitutional Objectives?

Hi Joe, you wrote:
 
So it's futile for Christian engineers, scientists, theologians, and
others to collectively and intentionally seek God's will for the
engineering and science professions and their Christian
members? It's established that God is too inscrutable for such an
exercise to be anything but a presumptuous waste of time?
 
There is certainly some question as to whether the will of God is
knowable or not. You could see that from the responses on this list.
Your suggested amendment seems to imply that we know it. That's all.
 
~Dick Fischer~ Genesis Proclaimed Association
Finding Harmony in Bible, Science, and History
www.genesisproclaimed.org
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Carson [mailto:jpcarson@tds.net]
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 2:43 PM
To: Dick Fischer
Subject: RE: petition to amend ASA Constitutional Objectives?
 
So it's futile for Christian engineers, scientists, theologians, and
others to collectively and intentionally seek God's will for the
engineering and science professions and their Christian
members? It's established that God is too inscrutable for such an
exercise to be anything but a presumptuous waste of time?
 
Please respond to the points I make, not your recasted ones.
 
thanks,
 
Joe
 
At 01:21 PM 12/1/2005, you wrote:
>Hi Joe, you wrote:
>
>In other words, "ascertain God's will"?
>
>So Churches, Councils, etc are presumptuous? Is ASA presumptuous to
>exist? If you wish to be irrelevant, that is a formula for being so,
>that it would be presumptuous to be otherwise. Is God that
>inscrutable, random, and capricious? Or is that just your presumption?
>
>Testy. Joe, I wish I knew God's will for my life, and for the ASA for
>that matter. It would be real easy if the handwriting was written
>neatly on the wall, in English. It isn't and won't be. But theology
>isn't normally a strong suit for scientists and engineers, and here is
a
>good opportunity to weigh input from someone a little theologically
>grounded.
>
>~Dick Fischer~ Genesis Proclaimed Association
>Finding Harmony in Bible, Science, and History
>www.genesisproclaimed.org
 
Received on Fri Dec 2 11:34:45 2005