Power of Prayer
Carl Geisik cgeisik@lanl.gov
Mon, 14 Dec 1998 07:32:50 -0700 (00913667570, 3.0.32.19981214073249.00947460@dxmail.lanl.gov)
<<SNIP>>
JEFF
>
>You know, if somebody makes promises to me in what seems to be clear
>language, then backs out of the promise because of this or that condition,
>I tend to get annoyed.
>
>Yet I sense that you are not annoyed that God doesn't keep his
>plain-english (well, since it's been translated:) promise ..
>
>Tell me, is this because you don't agree with me on the importance of
>keeping promises in general, or because you think God is a special case?
>
>Jeff
>PS So, Carl, how does it feel to be "a failure"?
>--
>\/ http://incolor.inetnebr.com/jepler/ Jeff Epler jepler@inetnebr.com
>Generosity and perfection are your everlasting goals.
>
GEISIK
I hope no one is suprised at this idea. After all, Jesus has a long history of deception and lies...at least if you believe the Bible:
(Because most here are already intimately familiar with these, I will be brief)
John 7:
8 You go to the Feast. I am not yet going up to this Feast, because for me the right time has not yet come."
9 Having said this, he stayed in Galilee.
10 However, after his brothers had left for the Feast, he went also, not publicly, but in secret.
Luke 8:
43 And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,
44 Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched.
45 And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?
Perhaps we should listen more to His own words:
"Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect" (Matt. 24:23-24).
Carl Geisik