Today is Monday, January 21st, 2008; Karen's Korner #1231
(Being emailed from Dallas, Texas!)
Final installment of several exerpts from "If There is No God..." by Mark Winter.
If there is no God,
why is faith so good for you?"
In the early 1980s as a young doctor in Missouri,
Harold Koenig noticed patients turning to the Bible for comfort and strength.
After rigorous research, Dr. Koenig concluded that
religious faith benefited ailing persons.
His findings prompted him to write a book
on the healing power of faith and
return to his Christian roots.
"Daughter, your faith has healed you.
Go in peace and be freed
from you suffering."
~ Mark 5:34
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If there is no God,
who invented the idea of LOVE?
Bertran Russell, the Nobel Prize-winning freethinker,
was an opponent of Christianity.
Yet he once admitted that
"Christian charity, emanating from the concert of a God of love"
is the "only hope" for human survival.
"We love because he first loved us."
~~ I John 4:19
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If there is no God,
why would the world celebrate Christmas?
In 1998, the Cuban government reinstated Christmas
as an authorized holiday after a twenty-nine year ban.
After the announcement, Bishop Adolfo Rodriquez triumpahtly announced,
"The church is separate from the state,
but it is not separate from the people.
"For to us a child is born,
to us a son is given, and the
government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called Wonderful Counselor,
Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace."
~~ Isaiah 9:6
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If there is no God,
why have so many biblical prophecies come true?
In Science Speaks, Peter Stoner calculated that the probability of
one person fulfilling eight selected biblical prophecies was 1 in 1,107.
The likelihood of one person fulfilling forthy-eight prophecies was
1 in 10,157.
Jesus of Nazareth fulfilled sixty-one
major Old Testament prophecies!
"Prophecy never had its origin in the will of man,
but men spoke from God as they were carried
along by the Holy Spirit."
~ 2 Peter 1:21
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