Re: [asa] Opposing Anti-Evolution

In a message dated 7/17/2006 3:58:33 PM Eastern Standard Time,
rich.blinne@gmail.com writes:
But you need to go back to the original assertion that God prefers the
learned who are people who obtain knowledge in a discursive rather than intuitive
fashion. So, Rich F. contradicts himself. The more correct statement comes later
so this could be indicative of progress, but Rich will need to deny the
earlier statement first for that to be the case.
Dear Rich,

It's unfortunate that we in the west do not have the grasp of the religious
experience they have in the east.
The buddhists, who share the self sacrifice with the west, say you can
apprehend the truth immediately and intuitively or gradually by building up to it
through good works. So, if you intuit God, you do the good works - or if you do
the good works long enough you come to the intuition. It goes either way. You
also completely missed my explanation of the context within which Jesus and
Paul condemn wisdom. They condemn it when it is hypocrisy, not when it is wisdom
of God as the Pharisees who built rabbinical Judaism knew the law but did not
have it written on their hearts, so clashed with Jesus. They didn't let God
in their hearts to do God's will. Remember Craig's quote from John 14:10, "it
is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work." "

Now consider religion as a discipline and an ethic. Knowing the ethic
intellectually and expounding on the ethic is not the same as disciplining one's self
to the ethic so completely that all other desire is gone and only the desire
for God remains. Wisdom is not enough, nor is it the supreme wisdom.
Surrendering the self to God which is loving God is necessary over and above wisdom or
intelligence which does not have God as its object. Love of God is supreme
wisdom. It is not simple book learning.

Some of your descriptions of my remarks are not spot on.

If you haven't read my paper True Religion, please let me know. I'll send you
a copy. It regards the structure of the fall and the redemption.

rich faussette

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Received on Mon Jul 17 17:56:41 2006