For my thinking friends

For my thinking friends


INTERESTING CONVERSATION

An Atheist Professor of Philosophy was speaking to his Class on the Problem Science has with GOD, the ALMIGHTY. He asked one of his Students to stand and...

Professor: You are a Christian, aren't you, son?
Student    : Yes, sir.
Professor: So, you believe in GOD?
Student    : Absolutely, sir.
Professor: Is GOD Good?
Student    : Sure.
Professor: Is GOD ALL - POWERFUL?
Student    : Yes.
Professor: My Brother died of Cancer even though he prayed to GOD to Heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But GOD didn't. How is this GOD good then? Hmm?

(Student was silent)

Professor: You can't answer, can you?  Let's start again, Young Fella. Is GOD Good?
Student    : Yes...
Professor: Is Satan good?
Student    : No.
Professor: Where does Satan come from?
Student    : From. .. . GOD . . .
Professor: That's right.  Tell me son, is there evil in this World?
Student    : Yes.
Professor: Evil is everywhere, isn't it? And GOD did make everything. Correct?
Student    : Yes.
Professor: So who created evil?

(Student did not answer)

Professor: Is there Sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the World, don't they?
Student    : Yes, sir.
Professor: So, who Created them?

(Student had no answer)

Professor: Science says you have 5 Senses you use to Identify and Observe the World around you. Tell me, son . . . Have you ever Seen GOD?
Student    : No, sir.
Professor: Tell us if you have ever Heard your GOD?
Student    : No, sir.
Professor: Have you ever Felt your GOD, Tasted your GOD, Smelt your GOD? Have you ever had any Sensory Perception of GOD for that matter?
Student    : No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't.
Professor: Yet you still Believe in HIM?
Student    : Yes.
Professor: According to Empirical, Testable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says your GOD doesn't exist.  What do you say to that, son?
Student    : Nothing.  I only have my Faith.
Professor: Yes, Faith.  And that is the Problem Science has.

Student    :  Professor, is there such a thing as Heat?
Professor:  Yes.
Student    :  And is there such a thing as Cold?
Professor:  Yes.
Student   :   No, sir. There isn't.

(The Lecture Theatre became very quiet with this turn of events)

Student    :  Sir, you can have Lots of Heat, even More Heat, Superheat, Mega Heat, White Heat, a Little Heat or No Heat. But we don't have anything called Cold. We can hit 458 Degrees below Zero which is No
Heat, but we can't go any further after that. There is no such thing as Cold. Cold is only a Word we use to describe the Absence of Heat. We cannot Measure Cold. Heat is Energy. Cold is Not the Opposite of Heat, sir, just the Absence of it.

(There was Pin-Drop Silence in the Lecture Theatre)

Student    : What about Darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as Darkness?
Professor: Yes. What is Night if there isn't Darkness?
Student    : You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is the Absence of Something. You can have Low Light, Normal Light, Bright Light, and Flashing Light . . . But if you have No Light constantly, you have nothing and
its called Darkness, isn't it? In reality, Darkness isn't. If it is, you would be able to make Darkness Darker, wouldn't you?
Professor:  So what is the point you are making, Young Man?
Student   :   Sir, my point is your Philosophical Premise is flawed.
Professor:  Flawed? Can you explain how?
Student    :  Sir, you are working on the Premise of Duality. You argue there is Life and then there is Death, a Good GOD and a Bad GOD. You are viewing the Concept of GOD as something finite, something we can
measure. Sir, Science can't even explain a Thought. It uses Electricity and Magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view Death as the Opposite of Life is to be ignorant of the fact
that Death cannot exist as a Substantive Thing. Death is Not the Opposite of Life: just the Absence of it. Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your Students that they evolved from a Monkey?
Professor: If you are referring to the Natural Evolutionary Process, yes, of course, I do.
Student    : Have you ever observed Evolution with your own eyes, sir?

(The Professor shook his head with a Smile, beginning to realize where the Argument was going)

Student    : Since no one has ever observed the Process of Evolution at work and cannot even prove that this Process is an On-Going Endeavor, are you not teaching your Opinion, sir? Are you not a Scientist but a
Preacher?

(The Class was in Uproar)

Student    : Is there anyone in the Class who has ever seen the Professor's Brain?

(The Class broke out into Laughter )

Student    : Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor's Brain, Felt it, touched or Smelt it? . . . No one appears to have done so.   So, according to the Established Rules of Empirical, Stable,
Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that You have No Brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then Trust your Lectures, sir?

(The Room was Silent. The Professor stared at the Student, his face unfathomable)

Professor:  I guess you'll have to take them on Faith, son.
Student    :  That is it sir . . .  Exactly! The Link between Man & GOD is FAITH. That is all that Keeps Things Alive and Moving.


NB:

I believe you have enjoyed the Conversation . . . and if so. .
You'll probably want your Friends / Colleagues to enjoy the same . . .
won't you?
Forward them  this link to them to Increase their Knowledge . . . or FAITH.
http://beautifulfeettaskforce.blogspot.com/2013/07/for-my-thinking-friends-interesting.html


The student was ALBERT EINSTEIN 

DON'T WAIT FOR MIRACLES, INITIATE ONE!

I came across this blog this week on Africa Network BFTF from one of our members and thought is worthy of repeating here.


Do your BEST and God will do the REST! You can't expect God to do his part, when you fail to do your own part. Miracles are workable; the scriptures speak of the working of miracles. Instead of waiting for a miracle, you can initiate one by doing the right things via the right principles.

God's intervention is not an excuse for irresponsibility, nether is God a patron for the passive, nor heaven an asylum for failures. You either do something with your time, energy and resources or you rot and rust away.

God did not create the heavens and the earth by sitting down and claiming promises. He stepped out of eternity into time and worked for six days (Six thousand years in human calculation) and rested on the seventh day.

In Genesis 2: 8, God did what most of us have never done: He planted a garden. Most of us want to eat fruits, but we don't want to plant a garden.

A generation that believes in prosperity without principles, success without work, Privileges without responsibilities is a cursed generation.

It's time to get up! If you sleep, your life would slip off. To be seasoned, you must reason. To have worth, you must embrace work, not as punishment, but as opportunity to shape your destiny. Convert your confession into a profession; it takes just that to reach the ultimate of your potential. 

See you there!  

DrBenard Etta

Hill Top Healing Service

As advertised, a Christian Healing Service was held at the Hill Top War Memorial Hall on the evening of Friday 10th May. This service was led by Pastor Howard Sands and his associated ministry team of dedicated Christians from Western Sydney. Hill Top Church was a sponsor of the evening and gratefully acknowledges the assistance received from Bowral Baptist Church.

The service commenced at 7.30pm. Such was the demand for ministry that people were still being prayed for until around 11pm. The Hill Top War Memorial Hall was filled with people to a comfortable capacity. Two people became Christians on the evening! Around 40 people sought and received prayer and ministry. Some testified of immediate results as God moved amongst us in Spirit. 

The two people who became Christians on the evening have been attending Sunday Services at Hill Top Church, confirming their new-found faith. 

After Howard addressed the Southern Highlands Christian Ministers’ Association in February this year explaining what he believed God had called him to do, we at Hill Top Church had taken the approach that we had been praying for revival in Hill Top for a long time; how did we know that this was not God’s answer to our prayers. Accordingly we accepted Howard’s invitation to be a sponsoring church for this service. We believe that the results speak for themselves and vindicate our decision.

We thank God for Howard and his team, for their receptiveness to God’s calling and their obedience to His will. We would be very keen to be involved in this ministry again. 

Richard Cormick

Operation Africa 2012

Opening Living Water Wells, 

Crusade in Tanzania, 

National Conferences in Tanzania and  Kenya

Pan Africa Congress in Uganda.

Video for Africa Network BFTF National Conferences 2012

Photos of the opening of Living Water Well at Eden Park, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, with Apostle Dennis D Daniel,
the street parade festival and crusade,
the national conferences for Africa Network BFTF for
     Tanzania led by Bishop Eliah Mauza and
     Kenya led by Bishop Gerishon Njoroge and
     The Pan Africa Congress "Kingdom Building Through Unity"
     in Uganda led by Ps Godfrey Mulonde.

Thank you to all our supporters, prayer partners and friends for making this awesome ministry time to hundreds of leaders possible. 

See updates at Facebook 
Original Living Water Wells post 

Opening of the 1st Living Water Well - Tanzania

Imagine our joy, four years after visiting Eden Park and seeing the situation, only 2 wells for a community of a few thousand people, no running water, walking hundreds of meters many times a day to the well to buy water for every day needs drinking, bathing, toilets, washing, cooking etc for the community at Eden Park. We were moved to do something about it. Finally an arrangement was set for Australian tax deductible gifts to go to the provision of water wells in Tanzania and a man Dennis D Daniel appointed as our in country representative, to source the right locations, and arrange with the local contractors to put in the wells at various locations where needed as approved by our AUSAID partner Global Development Group. 

Now the trip we had planned was coming about, even though there were some concerns and all had not gone according to plan, (how little did we really know at that point of the problems they had faced in Tanzania). We were on our way, 3 Aussies to inspect and open the well at Eden Park near Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's biggest city and commercial centre.  I find it incredible to believe that 5 minutes from the international airport in the country's biggest city, there is no running water.

After arriving and settling in to our hotel, we went to the site of the well at Eden Park Healing Ministry, somewhat discouraged that the building was not yet complete although the well was completed and had previously been operating and providing water to the community, now it was closed at the request of the engineers because vandals had broken down the office and tower for the water tanks to sit on top of  and the engineer was gravely concerned for contamination of the well. 

A long time the building had been broken down, and embarrassed to advise us in Australia, our in country partner had gone looking to try and raise the necessary funds to rebuild the office and tower and buy a new tank to replace the one damaged in the vandalism. Months had gone by, now we were here to open the well and it was not yet finished.  

The building engineer had requested to hold off on putting the water tank on top of the building until the concrete had set well and now the building had to be finished. As those few days passed we saw the building get completed and the tank erected. The windows and doors were put in, the walls rendered and painted inside and out.

Prior to opening the well about 50-60 people went with us and the local band and paraded around the local area with great music, singing, dancing and shouting and inviting the locals to come to the opening of the well.

What a great time of rejoicing it was. The local community of Kipunguni hadn't seen anything like it before; and so we returned to Eden Park and officially opened the first well of BFTF Living Water Wells on Wednesday 10th October 2012. 

There is more work to be done on the next well project, but now a head office for the wells project has been opened and a supervisor appointed to care for the administration of reports and water sales at Kipunguni and preparation for more water wells in needy Tanzania. 

We welcome interested parties to enquire about partnering with us in this great project by donating or coming on our next trip to open more wells.

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