Guess we will have to wait until Jesus Himself
separates the sheep from the goats. Then we will know for sure
who is the "good and faithful servant" and who is
deceiving others and being deceived themselves because no
artificial fruit will stand before him with whom we
have to do - Who can endure the day of His coming and who
shall stand when He appeareth?
jt.
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On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 02:05:31 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A true faith reflects REALITY! deeganet al:Faith IS our reality (substance and evidence).God is my reality because I believe this to be true. The B I B L E is the book for me because I believe it to be. The Spirit indwells my life because I believe this to be. My faith is circular in nature, passionate at its core, unprovable to those who care not to believe and perfectly acceptable to those who do.Was it Lance who said something in the order of " I believe, therefore I will understand" ??Strictly speaking, we are all in the same boat as that of our Mormon friends. Each of us here on TT has chosen to believe in something. Each of us would love to stand up and say, " I can prove this to be right" but nothing we believe about God and His Christ is provable outside the realm of faith.Does that set us apart from the scientist who keeps on believing that "we are closer to a discovery than at any time in the past." Or the mathematician who depends on "truths" that he cannot prove (postulates) but MUST ACCEPT before he can do any meaningful research or the tycoon who surrounds himself with people who claim to be his friends -------------- something he will never know for sure because he has all that money. So he believes. In our world, there is much more to do with faith than "reality" when it comes to the foundation of a number of systems ------------ perhaps all systems. Einstein believed in a TOE because he believed all of the universe (big and small) came from a single source. Faith. Hawkin has continued the same search because of faith ------------ faith in Einstein.Every time a car passes me going south while I am going north -- faith has been played out. Blind faith. Those who fly exercise faith before anything else occurs. That's why I drive. The last customer I had, paid me a large amount of money before I did a lick of work -- faith. I trust that he will make the final pay because I will be done with the job with no leverage to make him pay ------- faith.I could go on and on and on. Faith is much more the reality than "reality." Those who look down their noses at the believer are, themselves, just as assuredly believers. Nothing in this world goes forward without faith. I pity the fool who does not believe for he can truly accomplish NOTHINg.JDJD
