Re: Making money from Java


Judson McClendon wrote:
> I know people who have been miraculously healed, medical evidence
> and all. One of my very oldest and dearest friends had stomach cancer. They
> did multiple CAT scans and x-rays, including the day before surgery, and the
> cancer was there. My friend was a minister (now retired), and his whole
> church was praying for him. The surgeon said after surgery that when he went
> in, he saw lesions on the stomach wall where the cancer had been, but the
> cancer was completely gone. Now, if my friend came and showed you those
> medical records, would it make you a believer? :-)

And how often do church congregations pray for those who subsequently
die, without remark? I would like to see the x-rays, as I suspect that
if the cancer had indeed gone then it was the scar tissue left behind
which was on the scans and x-rays.

>
> I believe the answer lies in
> understanding three things, one that God decided to give man free will,

But if God is all-knowing then he knows our futures and, by definition,
free will does not exist.

> I have often wondered if what we perceive and
> express as "Murphy's Law" (Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong) is
> actually God's curse at work? :-)

No, just a cynical expression not requiring man to investigate further.
Something along the lines of 'It's not my fault'.

> Anyway, man has sinned against God

Britain was condemned for the practice of deporting thieves to
Australia. A punishment that did not fit the crime. God's punishment of
Adam and Eve by banishment, does appear to be excessive.

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