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From: bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig)
Subject: Re: 14 Apr 93 God's Promise in 1 John 1: 7
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Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1993 01:00:58 GMT
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brian@lpl.arizona.edu (Brian Ceccarelli 602/621-9615) writes:
>
>Consider your mother Merlyn.  You know your mother.  What would you think
>of me if I asserted that your mother is 9 feet tall, murdered your father,
>and sexually abused you when you were a kid?

I would just go fetch my parents, and show them to you, and thereby
prove quite definitively that my mother is not named Merlyn, she is
not nine feet tall, and my father is quite alive.

Then I would assert quite simply that your deity does not exist, and
wait for a similar demonstration from you.

-- 
_/_/_/  Brian Kendig                             Je ne suis fait comme aucun
/_/_/  bskendig@netcom.com                de ceux que j'ai vus; j'ose croire
_/_/                            n'etre fait comme aucun de ceux qui existent.
  /  The meaning of life     Si je ne vaux pas mieux, au moins je suis autre.
 /    is that it ends.                                           -- Rousseau
