Re: [A-List] Re: COUP d' ETAT IN WASHINGTON

["Hugh Whinfrey" <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sabri writes:

> Anne:
> 
> > Sabri, the entire Christian faith rests upon the
> > fact that we are dealing with a living Christ. -A.
> 
> I don't want to sound obnoxious Anne but excuse my language:
> where the hell is that Christ that I never get to see him?
<snip>

This whole topic appears to be multi-dimensional in more ways 
than one. My inbox is a somewhat surreal co-incidence of
unrelated groups discussing precisely the same topic. Here's
one of the recent posts from there, the "kant-l" list at Yahoo Groups,
which goes directly at the heart of the issue (between the double
angle brackets):

>>We cannot know how it could be possible that we could have been made 
to commit evil instead of the good, given a good God (and you can't 
blame God), but we do have this consolation:

The Christian gives his consolation: we cannot possibly understand 
good and evil, but we Christians know that God is good because he 
sent his own son, whom he loved like all good parents love, and 
watched him suffer evil. So we know that God is suffering with us, 
and further will end his suffering by ending ours. For our God 
reflects each of his children, and so is sad that they are sad. 
Therefore be of good cheer, for if his son has suffered with us, as a 
god/man, i.e., the morally perfect man (Son of God), then we can be 
sure that God not only wants to relieve our suffering but in 
experiential fact +can+ relieve our suffering (but that takes us a 
bit too far afield for here, for then we must have recourse to an 
utter miracle like a resurrection in order to be convinced that there 
is a hope).<<

Hugh