Re: Making money from Java

"Oliver Wong" <owong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "Judson McClendon" <judmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> "Alistair" <alistair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> I once arrived at a busy junction and, knowing that traffic coming from
>>> the right was unsighted and that people near me were similarly
>>> unsighted, I looked right to see if there was a car coming. There was.
>>> There was also a woman about to step into the road (she hadn't checked
>>> for traffic and had not slowed). I did nothing to stop her from having
>>> what could have been a fatal accident. Fortunately, the car driver was
>>> able to stop in time. Now, if she had been hit and died, would I have
>>> been free of blame knowing that I could have stopped her from stepping
>>> into the road? That one has dogged me for years and although I was not
>>> at fault by action, I was at fault by inaction.
>>
>> But if you had warned her (as God has warned us) and she ignored you and
>> went anyway, then it was her decision, her fault.
>
> The problem with this analogy is that God could have given us much
> better warnings than poorly translated documents that are several
> thousands of years old.
>
> If Alistair somehow knew 40 years ahead that the woman was going to get
> into an accident, and he decided to write a warning, and then pass it to a
> German friend to translate it to German, and then pass that german text to
> a Chinese friend to translate the German version, then pass it to a French
> friend who is learning English to translate the Chinese version back to
> English, and then to mail that final English translation to the parents of
> the woman before her birth...
>
> ... People might ask Alistair "Why didn't you just tell her directly,
> right before crossing the intersection, instead of going through all these
> convolutions? The way you did it now, it just seems like a sick joke."


God tried that with Israel, as I pointed out in another post. But in 40
years of God's undeniable immediate presence (plagues on Egypt, parting of
the Red Sea, cloud by day, glowing cloud by night, manna every morning, God
going into Moses tent in the form of a cloud, Moses face glowing when he
came out, the ground opening up to swallow rebels, etc.) there were (IIRC)
10 major rebellions. What makes you think people would listen to more direct
evidence today? People believe God did not create us, even when there is no
other reasonable explanation for life (autogenesis). People believe what
they want to believe. Jesus points this out in the story of Lazarus and the
rich man. I used to find that hard to believe, but I have witnessed enough
with my own eyes to see that it is true.
--
Judson McClendon judmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (remove zero)
Sun Valley Systems http://sunvaley.com
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that
whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life."


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