In a message dated 1/13/01 8:16:11 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
<< I'm going to jump in here. If faith is instinctual, how do you explain
converts? Faith is influenced by facts, by experiences--the fact that man
has the capacity to question is what bares out that faith or belief is a
choice. This is how one's beliefs can, and do, change over time. Haven't
some of your beliefs (even in faith) changed in the course of your lifetime?
I know mine have. >>
well oh my god stephen, of course my beliefs have changed over time. and
they continue to do that. but my essence as a spiritual being has not
changed.
as for converts, i can't speak to that. this is why i am not an evangelist.
i don't know what other people need. and i can't explain why they act as
they do.
my only real belief about other people is that we need to be willing to share
our experience with others and be willing to listen to their experience. in
that rests our hope for growth.
patrick
