After a bit of a delay, my brother is finally in basic training.
At my mother's suggestion, I got him a small Bible. Nothing quite the thing I was looking for, but a "mere book" works. And that is the remarkable thing about the Bible, the fact that it's a "mere book." The Word of God is not brought to us by some nebulous spiritual experience but rather by ink impressed onto bound paper- matter, physical stuff! God chose to speak to us on our level with things that are familiar to us. Even more so, when God sent his Son it was not as a ghost or in nature as pagan gods may, but as a man in flesh. As a wise man once said, "God likes matter, He invented it."
Anyways, Andrew, make your nation proud, God bless and Godspeed!
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I have for the last several years thought about how God works through natural processes rather than by some unexpected out-of-the-ordinary idea of a miracle, which people might expect. My first hint of it was in junior high when we watched a video about how the floor of the Red Sea is just so, so that if a strong enough wind comes from the right direction it parts--and actually began to do so temporarily for Napoleon.
I've thought about it more and more in the context of the creationism vs. evolution debate, and I now fail to see why the two ideas are mutually exclusive. All natural processes were created by God, so obviously that is how God prefers to work.
Dan, you need to send me an e-mail so I can find out what's going on in your life.
sir_jell_o [at] yahoo [dot] com
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