but how my sb interpreted his relationship simply has no bearing on who god is, only on how he himself acted.

I'm sorry, that must have been horrible. Hopefully I can argue about this without opening up any old wounds... re: your sb's actions having no influence over God: Exactly. So why choose Christianity over Islam or Shintoism if A> God is independent of our actions and B> There is no readily apparant "right" religion?

Now for a long paste:

"The fact that you seek the truth, dearheart, is a sure thing you're headed in the right direction. Remember, just like you don't settle for 'a keyboard exists just because', don't settle for a conversation with me or anyone else that he exists and cares and all that cool stuff. i don't know what kinds of words you've heard in your life, but his you needn't be afraid of, they are not meant to harm you but build you up into the best you he had in mind to design. no promise of roses, but absolute peace and satisfaction of the 'right'. "

That's the problem. That argument sounds great and wonderful, but doesn't MEAN anything. Again, it comes down to how do you know?

• you're so patient with me! - gwynj - January 29, 2001 - 02:02 UTC