--- Ronn Blankenship
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 11:00 PM 6/16/01, Dean Forster wrote:
>
> >--- Ronn Blankenship
> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > > At 11:10 AM 6/16/01, you wrote:
> > >
> > > Seriously: your father only thought about the
> > > scriptures as an
> > > intellectual exercise, and never prayed to
> > > understand them? Did he believe
> > > that they were from God? If so, why not take
> > > advantage of the opportunity
> > > and ask the author?
> > >
> >
> >I don't think he prays, per se. He has major
> problems
> >with organized religion, and sees the Bible as
> tainted
> >by 2000 years of Catholic politics. He does have
> >Faith, perhaps in a slightly agnostic way. I'd say
> he
> >more like communes, and it's something done while
> >walking in the forest around where he spent summers
> as
> >a boy.
>
>
> Yes, I've done a lot of walking and thinking like
> that, too. I my case, I
> did already have a faith in God and accepted the
> Bible as scripture. So I
> was wondering why he would invest time in reading
> and thinking about the Bible.
>
>
Basic curiosity I suppose. =)
dean
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