Answered Prayer!!!

Donald T Scott dts02@juno.com
Tue, 29 Dec 1998 15:34:33 -0800 (00914996073, 19981229.153434.10582.0.dts02@juno.com) 

On Tue, 29 Dec 1998 16:01:07 -0600 chief blackfoot
<blackfoot@mail.utexas.edu> writes:

> Chief Blackfoot:

>

>Well...Let me put it this way.

>

>If there is a prayer answering god, then it seems pretty

>obvious that this prayer was answered.

>

>If there isn't, then this was just an odd coincidence.

>

>All my previous prayers weren't answered.  The ones I

>made after the "answered" prayer that asked god to

>show me that the "answered" one was being wrongly

>interpreted or that it wasn't from the "true" god

>weren't answered (did you catch that?).

>

>I don't deny the power of things "unseen", so maybe

>it was an answer.  Maybe an answer from a god that only

>answers theological/spiritual questions and not prayers

>for healings.  I don't know...but you really shouldn't

>look a gift-horse in the mouth... %> ;> :p

>

>

>--

>chief blackfoot

>

>This reminds me of the story of a minister

>who wrote in the margin of his sermon notes,

>"Weak argument here.  Shout louder."

>- Edward T. Babinski

>


DTS
I'm not an atheist either, being much more a pantheist, but even that
noun isn't perfect for me, but it would pay well to avoid the compelling
pitfalls of Western thought, such as:

1)  If God exists, then the Bible is true.  (There is no reason other
than acculturation to make that assumption.)

2)  If God answers prayers, then God is the being described in the Bible,
because the Bible god reportedly answers prayers.  (Again, no reason to
assume that.)

3)  If the Bible does describe God accurately, then the Bible is an
accurate account of God's history and biography, too.  (Nothing unusual
about works of fiction accurately describing real persons.)

A lot of people are uncomfortable with the idea of a God that they cannot
describe in detail.  Not me.  I find it much more honest and liberating. 
Keep looking; if there's nothing to be found, so be it; if there is,
you'll find it taking the form best for you.












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