God has a sense of humor

God, The Bear, & an AtheistThe AtheistAn atheist was taking a walk through the woods.
What majestic trees!
What powerful rivers!
What beautiful animals!" he said to himself.As he was walking alongside the river he heard a rustling in the bushes behind him. He turned to look. He saw a 7 foot grizzly charge towards him.He ran as fast as he could up the path. He looked over his shoulder and saw that the bear was closing in on him. He looked over his shoulder again, and the bear was even closer.He tripped and fell on the ground. He rolled over to pick himself up but saw the bear right on top of him, reaching for him with his left paw and raising his right paw to strike him.At that instant the Atheist cried out: "Oh my God!..."Time stopped.
The bear froze.
The forest was silent.As a bright light shone upon the man, a voice came out of the sky:"You deny my existence for all of these years,teach others I don't exist, and even credit creation to a cosmic accident.Do you expect me to help you out of this predicament? Am I to count you as a believer?"
The atheist looked directly into the light, "It would be hypocritical of me to suddenly ask You to treat me as a Christian now, but perhaps could you make the BEAR a Christian?""Very well," said the voice.
The light went out.
The sounds of the forest resumed.And then the bear dropped his right paw, brought both paws together and bowed his head and spoke:"Lord, bless this food, which I am about to receive from thy bounty through our Lord Amen."This message has been edited by steve, 06-21-2004 08:51 AM

Typical athiestic reponse.However, the answer is no, God allows the sower to reap what he has sowed.

Um, I'm not Jewish, and I didn't grow up Christian and I live in America in a time when it has wandered far from its Christian heritage, but I count myself a believer now.Seek Him and you will find Him. That's what it says. It doesn't say prove yourself to me and then I will believe you.Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

Here we go on another can of worms:Was this country founded by Christians or not?Let get ready to rumble. But hurry up, because once I don't have all this free time I can't play here anymore.peace

I'm not a mind or heart reader, all I know is that if you truly, with no buts attached, seek Him, He will show himself to you, but this brings up that awful faith word that no skeptic likes to hear.How about this, lets suppose that you are right that there is no God. What then?Only in this crazy mixed up country would people actually think there is no God. even in third world countries they at least understanding a spiritual demension.(b.t.w. I love America, so don't get any ideas)This message has been edited by steve, 06-22-2004 11:01 PM

Honestly, I used to think the same way you do, but once I began to believe, I could look back in my life and see God's hand.I could see all the times that He moved and worked for my benefit."I was once blind, but now I see"But it took me believing first, before that I thought God wasn't for me.

Yeah, I got steam coming out of my ears.Dang you athiests, you really done it this time.

This is what you said, which is how I used to think. What's your confusion?Now, if you are this all-knowing, all-seeing, all-powerful being and you know that I am looking for you and you know that the only way I will be able to comprehend your message is if you present it on my termsMy terms: How about looking for God on His terms?

I can only go by what you say to conjecture as to what you think, so when I say what you think, I'm basing it on what you say, unless what you say is not what you think.Believing something doesn't make it true, but believing in truth is what I do.Like I keep saying, you have to actually try it, experience, live it.Arguing on a message board ain't gonna do it. You can't know something taste good without eating it, right? Well, taste and see that God is good.You want it on your terms, well here I am, writing to you on an internet message board, where you all seem to spend quite a bit of time and telling you about God. How much simpler do you want Him to talk to you, what more "terms" do you have for Him to reach you?

We are made in the image of God. If you can't see Him in people, you don't want to see Him.I see Him everywhere I look.

Because I said I see God, not goblins.

And yet, I'm sure you don't believe in Zeus. So if you refuse to believe someone who believes a different god is everywhere, why should anybody believe in you and yours?If I said that I rubbed a banana on my head and it changed my life, would you go do it? Hopefully your answer is no.Now, what if I and millions of other people told you that Jesus changed our lives? The only way you could know if we were telling the truth would be to experience Him for yourself.By my logic there are not such things as goblins, which means if some told me they saw them every where I would think they are crazy.But by my logic too, God is reflected in people, so that's not crazy.Several monkeys discussing the theory of evolution. theres a rumor that man descended from our noble race. Can’t be — we don’t build fences around vegetables and fruit trees and keep other monkeys from the food and even let the extra go to waste, we don’t like spoiled fruit juices but the humans drink that and it makes some of them act silly, and we don’t use guns and knives to take other monkeys lives — it is true that man must have descended but not from us!

Yep, they're real supernatural beings.

no, because that's like saying this is all fake and nothing is really happening. There's no proof to support it, there's plenty of proof for Jesus.John Stuart Mill said that the historocity of Jesus is indisputable.That would lead us to the legend, liar, lunatic or truth arguement.