On 12-19-97 DAY BROWN wrote to John Boone... 
 
        Hello Day and thanks for writing, 
  
  BTW, did you get my post about the bounded nature of 
"chaos"? 
  
 DB> JB>   As I said above, if we only have good and evil, we don't have 
 DB> JB> good, then it must be evil.  In this situation, it is not 
 DB> JB> Nnecessary   
 DB> JB> for us to know evil except that which is not Jesus like.   
 
 DB> This was the fundamental position of Zoroaster (700 BCE), that 
    
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 DB> Had it not been for Alexander, we would probly still have this 
 DB> religion.  But his armies were so successful, that anything that  
 DB> was associated with Persian culture was discredited.  If this God  
 DB> was so good, then why didn't he protect them from the Greeks?  
 
  Ah, come on, Day, such a question, -assumes- I know or can 
explain, which I can't.  
  However, without providing an answer, this assumes "good" 
would mean "protecting them from the Greeks."  Why do 
you -assume- such would be the case? 
 
Take care, 
Merry Christmas, 
John 
 
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