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From: Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD - view profile
Date: Sat, Aug 26 2006 3:57 am
Email: "Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD" <nosp...@heartmdphd.com>
Groups: sci.med.cardiology, alt.christnet.christianlife, alt.religion.clergy, alt.christnet.evangelical
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Chuck Stamford wrote:
> "Andrew wrote:
> > Chuck Stamford wrote:
> >> Andrew wrote:
> >> > Chuck Stamford wrote:
> >> >> <read, understood, appreciated, and snipped>

> >> > Our LORD's purpose for me here remains to inform and not to either
> >> > convince or to teach.

> >> > This has been done with the guidance of the Holy Spirit:

> >> > http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.cardiology/msg/4518e05509523f1c?

> >> > Take what has been written to heart or leave it.

> >> Then I'll have to leave it, Andrew, and recommend that others do likewise
> >> if
> >> the situation arises where that would be the appropriate thing to do.

> > That would be your choice.  We each retain the free will that HE has
> > generously given us.

It is now clear that your actual choice is different from your stated
choice and different from the two choices that I offered you.

> >> The particular false belief that you hold to here (i.e., that
> >> non-cognitive
> >> beings can make choices and sin), while *obviously* false, apparently
> >> does
> >> you personally no critical spiritual harm.

> > This understanding from the Holy Spirit is not false.

> It's your understanding that its from the Holy Spirit, Andrew, and THAT
> understanding can be, and I believe in this particular case is, false.

When two believers disagree about who is being guided by the Holy
Spirit, the one that says s/he is in the Holy Spirit is the one guided
by HIM.

In the Spirit, this understanding comes from HIM.

> > Personally, this understanding from the Holy Spirit has strengthened
> > and encouraged me because GOD now appears more awesome and not less.

> And if that's all that it does to you and for you, then praise God.  I'd be
> the last person in the world to try and dissuade you in it.  Unfortunately,
> the way in which God has designed us, we don't hold very many beliefs in a
> "stand alone" status.

No such thing as either fortunately or unfortunately when there is no
fortune (Proverbs 16:33).

> Our beliefs have an awesomely intricate relationship
> to each other, one in which the vast majority of them we hold to be true
> form the basis for a whole string of other beliefs we hold to be true as
> well.  We hold beliefs in a "structure", Andrew, and it is my fear that this
> false belief of yours acts, or will act, or can act, as the basis for other
> beliefs you hold, or will come to hold.  And you cannot base a true belief
> on one that is false.  That is logically impossible.  So this one false
> belief could (and I stress "could" here) become the basis for a whole string
> of false beliefs, one or more of which very well could cause you spiritual
> harm, if not now, then in the future.  That is my real concern here.

It is clear you rely more on your logic and cognitive abilities than
the counsel of the Holy Spirit.

> > The souls of mountains, planets, stars, galaxies must obey HIM ! ! !

> But this statement directly contradicts what you've already said about the
> fig tree "choosing" to disobey God!  Can't you see that, Andrew??

What I see is obedience as an expression of free will.  Indeed,
obedience is proof of free will.  Although GOD is sovereign so that all
souls must obey HIM or receive the wages of sin... at the present time,
there are souls that have made the choice to disobey HIM and that they
still exist speaks to GOD's infinite mercy and grace.

Now folks should understand why all things have to be made new...

... for it is written that after the LORD's day of judgment when
unrepentent souls are judged and destroyed, there will be a new heaven,
a new earth, and a new Jerusalem.

> If they "must" obey, then they have no choice to obey.

Where there is free will there is choice.

It remains GOD's infinite will that all souls retain HIS generous gift
of free will.

> And if they can choose to obey or not, then they must not have to obey.

Your logic fails you here.

Think of a parent telling a child that s/he must obey.

Has this parent taken away the child's free will upon issuing the
command of obedience?

No, of course not.

Analogously, all souls retain their free will even when obedience is
commanded by GOD.

> Now either you're not expressing this belief very well as the Holy Spirit
> has given it to you, or the Holy Spirit hasn't given it to you despite what
> you believe to the contrary, because one thing is for sure: God doesn't
> contradict Himself!

or you are having difficulty understanding what has been plainly
written.

This latter explanation is more plausible because you did demonstrate a
misunderstanding of my writing...

"Would concur with what you have written."

... to mean disagreement:

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.cardiology/msg/5e083849014dcd6b?

> > GOD's love keeps them all alive.  GOD's love is the unified field law
> > that Einstein sought but never found.

> But Einstein wasn't looking for a field theory to explain why everything is
> "alive", Andrew.  He was seeking to explain why everything "exists".

With the death of their respective souls, GOD's creations would cease
to exist.

> As a doctor, you should well understand the difference.

As a scientist, I know that the distinction between life and existence
is blurred at the level of virus particles so that extrapolation of
this lack of distinction to souls is possible.

> The truth here is that you've got nothing to support your belief that
> everything has a soul, and is alive in some sense (that remains completely
> unexplained or described by you).  Nothing out of God's word the Bible.

Actually, all Biblical references to LORD Jesus Christ being able to
command things (trees, fish, stones, water, sky, mountains) to obey HIM
support the understanding that these things have soul and free will
even if technically some are not "alive" in the usual sense of the
word.

> Nothing from any human inquiry into the nature of the universe.

Actually, from the personal experience of interacting with animals,
having observed their obedience and love for their owners, it is clear
each have soul and free will.  Moreover, there have been scientific
evidence that plants are "aware" of their surroundings responding to
music and love by growing more vigorously.

> Nothing...but you're naked assertion that it's true despite all the evidence
> there is to the contrary.

You are straying from the truth here.

Recently, President Bush asserted that having the U.S. pull out of Iraq
now would mean death for America's soul. And, so our nation's president
has a sense that our nation has a soul. Indeed, disobeying GOD is sin
for a soul ...

... and it is written that the wages of sin is death (for a soul).

> >> So I'm am not concerned about
> >> you.  If that's what you believe, and you're strongly convinced it's
> >> true,
> >> then that's the way things are.

> > Most assuredly without doubt, I know the truth for HE is our LORD and
> > HE is kind, just, and right.

> But on that basis so do I, Andrew.

Yet, you have been straying from the truth in what you have written.

> >> But false beliefs can spiritually harm others, severely harm them, so
> >> perhaps it would be a good example of loving unconditionally if you kept
> >> this particular belief to yourself; especially since this belief has no
> >> direct bearing on the message of salvation and saving faith in God
> >> through
> >> His Son, Jesus Christ.

> > Actually, this understanding from the Holy Spirit does have a direct
> > bearing on the message of salvation and saving faith in GOD through HIS
> > Son, LORD Jesus Christ because it was provided in response to a direct
> > challenge from an atheist who asked the simple question:

> > "Why did Jesus curse the fig tree for not bearing fruit out-of-season
> > as described in Mark 11:12-14?"

> > If you believe the understanding provided by the Holy Spirit is false,
> > then you should justify your belief by providing an alternative
> > understanding that you hold up to be true.

> First of all, I DON'T believe that the understanding provided by the Holy
> Spirit is false.  I believe your PRESENT understanding of it is false.  So
> let's keep that huge distinction straight, okay?

There is no distinction for those in the Holy Spirit.  See above.

> And I believe the Holy Spirit doesn't send us special understandings about a
> passage of Scripture when He has already put the correct understanding
> within the context of that passage, as is the case with Mark 11.  So let's
> look at all that Jesus has to say there:

> "No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever." Mark 11:14 (KJV)

> "Have faith in God. 23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say
> unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and
> shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he
> saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. 24 Therefore I
> say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye
> receive them, and ye shall have them. "  Mark 11:22-24 (KJV)

> Now the second speech is in direct response to the disciples inquiry about
> the withered fig tree.  When we realize that, and look at this second
> speech, we begin to see that the situation doesn't have anything to do with
> Jesus being displeased at the fig tree not having any figs, or His
> punishment of the fig tree.  How petty must we view Jesus to understand a
> theme like that in the pericope??  He created the universe out of love, and
> being omniscient, knew for all eternity that this particular fig tree
> wouldn't have any figs when He came to it in time and space looking for
> figs, and kills a fig tree because it didn't satisfy His hunger pangs???
> That's nonesense, Andrew.

> No, the second speech of Jesus explains the entire affair, and it is put
> there, and preserved for us today BY the Holy Spirit...if we believe that
> the Bible is the inspired word of God.  And as we examine Jesus' speech
> there, we see He is teaching on the power of faith, not about Divine
> justice, or fig trees having souls and making free will choices, or anything
> else.  It's about faith, pure and simple, and we miss the lesson when we
> start reading into it additional ideas that the Holy Spirit never put there.

You have not answered the question:

"Why did Jesus curse the fig tree for not bearing fruit out-of-season
as described in Mark 11:12-14?"

> I hope this is of help to you.  I present it to you in that hope.

You remind me of Job's friends.  They also meant well.

May GOD continue to heal our hearts, dear brother Chuck whom I love
unconditionally.

Prayerfully in Christ's amazing love,

Andrew <><
--
Andrew B. Chung
Cardiologist, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
http://HeartMDPhD.com/HolySpirit

As for knowing who are the very elect, these you will know by the
unconditional love they have for everyone including their enemies
(Matthew 5:44-45, 1 Corinthians 13:3, James 2:14-17).

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