----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "eric stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 1:55 AM Subject: Re:
> The important question is not whether God > exists, but whether, presuming God > exists, God is part of the solution > or part of the problem. This is where > human rationality and all fundamentalists > part company. > The question is, how do you define 'exist'? I exist as an embodied spirit for the time being, and whether I will still exist after this body has disappeared forever, will very much depend on the spiritual heritage I leave. I that way one can say that people like Shakespeare, or Beethoven, Ravel, Debussy, Gandhi, Jezus Christ, Mohamed, Buddha, still exist, as long as people share some of their spirit. The idea of God or reality or love or whatever they managed to express perfectly, which was propagated by them, remains somehow, and as such, I think exists much stronger than I do now. In that sense, the belief in such a God makes him exist. Acts are done in his name. Thus, God is both part of the problem and part of the solution. How could it be otherwise? Since God is supposed to be everywhere. Jan Matthieu (AKA Kalyanamitra babaji) > \brad mccormick > > eric stewart wrote: > > > > http://www.synearth.net/ > > > > > > > > -- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com > > > > One click access to the Top Search Engines > > -- > Let your light so shine before men, > that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16) > > Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) > > <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/
