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>Day Brown wrote to Mark Bloss about "Existence Exists"
 DB> What lead me away from Christianity was the lack of reason, and a 
 DB> failure to respond to paradox by saying that it just was the will 
 DB> of God.  A God who condemns to hell, yet is merciful, a God who's 
 DB> omnipotent but yet I have a free will, and the existence of evil, 
 DB> all paint an irrational view of God. 
 DB> 
 DB> To say that we do not understand him may be, but it might be also, 
 DB> that God is rational, and does not choose to condemn, or choose to 
 DB> exercise his will here, so that we may, and sacrificed perfection, 
 DB> so that we might be individuals and not perfect angels. 
 Many Christians do not understand God any better than the next 
 "barbarian".  ;-)  In that, you made a mistake - to expect humans
 of any religion, to explain the answers they give for their god.
 God is not religious.  And, btw, God is not Christian either.  He is
 the God of Christianity - but in that sense He is also the God of
 the Jews, and the God of Muhammed as well - since Allah is just a 
 human definition of what Is.  There is nothing on Earth left out.
 Our petty religions will pass away to dust, just as our bodies do;
 but God is the All That Is, Ever Was, or Ever Will Be - and is not
 confined to a religion, nor the Earth, nor yet, even the Universe
 itself.
 
 The God of the Bible never condemns.  Any Christian who's read the Bible
 ought to _know_ that.  God never damns anyone.  To believe that, is to
 believe that God is a liar when it is written "I sent my Word and it 
 healed them."  With what Word, then, does God condemn?  It is the 
 devil of who it is written comes but to "kill, steal and to destroy", 
 and he is labeled The Destroyer, and The Accuser.  What is the symbol 
 "Satan"?  It is the symbol of death and oblivion, yes, but also the 
 symbol for misery and guilt.  God does not partake in guilt.  In the
 Christian Bible, we are given a choice - to believe we are partakers
 of the covenant between Man and God, ratified by the blood of Jesus,
 or choose to be damned by default - not by God's choice - but OUR choice.
 We are the damners.  You won't find too many Christians who have read 
 their Bibles enough to know this, or are willing to admit it.  Even 
 the Bible states it plainly: "to the church it has been given the 
 right to judge even the angels".   "Church", not capitalized, but 
 never translated, from the Greek meaning "called out", or "sanctified", 
 which is just a fancy word meaning segregated ones.  It does NOT mean a 
 bunch of human leaders who have usurped the term to mean "Us" because 
 we have the power.  But rather any little one of us, who has believed.
 In your last paragraph, you have stated more closely the truth than
 you may ever know; but this is my own personal opinion.  Except, angels
 are not perfect either.  ;-)
 
... Ghosts are merely unsubstantiated roomers.
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