Is It a Ghost or Jesus?

Farrell Till (jftill@midwest.net)
Thu, 5 Dec 1996 11:23:29 -0600 (CST)

>>(DAVE 12/4) Farrell: It may very well be Farrell - since I don't make
>>those decisions, I don't know. I hope, for your sake, this isn't the
>>case. My belief is that as long as you are on this earth, you are
>>"eligible" (I guess we'll both find out the real truth someday won't we) -
>>Jesus said he is knocking at the door - he never said he stops knocking. I
>>have seen some transformed lives in people far "worse" then you (of what I
>>know about you). By the way, I think the cooked goose will give you botulism
>>- better not eat it.
>>
>>PALMER SENN
>>Why would an omniscient being continue to "knock" at the door of a person
>>that is doomed? For that matter, why "knock" at all for most of mankind
>>when He knows no one will respond?
>>
>>BAKER 12/4
>>Let me play the devil's advocate for a moment. (Pardon the pun). If Jesus is
>>God, and is all knowing, the fact that he is still knocking on Till's heart
>>must mean that he knows that Till will one day accept him again. Why, pray
>>tell, would Jesus, who is all knowing, bother with Till unless were the case?
>>
>>(DAVE 12/5) Ronal: Good points. I don't think that Jesus' knocking
>necessarily means that Farrell will one day convert - see my post to Palmer.
> I believe he is making the offer to Farrell as he does to you and I.

TILL 12/5
What I want to know is how you know that Jesus is even knocking at my door.

I keep hearing a noise up in my attic. I used to think that maybe a ghost
was living there, because I see other signs that a ghost is in the house. I
have my office upstairs and right across the hall is another room. Even
though I keep the door to this room closed (to save the expense of heating
an unused room), whenever I return to my office after my wife and I have
been out of the house, this door is almost always open. I thought maybe my
miniature dachshund (as little as she is) was coming upstairs and pushing
against the door, but when I close it and push against it, it won't open.
Yet somehow it manages to open while we are going, and there is the creaking
noise up in the attic. I thought there was no better explanation than that
a ghost was in my house.

Now I have reconsidered. Maybe this is Jesus up in my attic knocking. When
we are gone, he comes down and opens the door as a symbolic gesture to me.

Would anyone on the list care to prove that this hypothesis is NOT true?

"Into my heart, into my heart, come into my heart, Lord Jesus!"

Farrell Till
Skepticism, Inc.
jftill@midwest.net