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   heart. Thus God himself is allowing his offspring a certain amount of time    
   to exercise their free will. You cannot blame God for what people do.   
   However, God has had a plan and program from the very beginning after he   
   created all souls at once, knowing ahead of time that by giving them free   
   will what the result might be. He does intend at a certain point to remove   
   all of the wicked off of the earth. Then after one thousand years shortly   
   later remove them from the universe [via decreation - separation of   
   consciousness & will portions from the spirit portion]. GOD WOULD ONLY BE   
   CRUEL IF HE WOULD ALLOW THE WICKED TO CAUSE SUFFERING TO THEMSELF AND   
   OTHERS *FOREVER*, WHICH HE IS NOT GOING TO DO, SEE? AND ISN'T IT TRUE   
   THAT ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL? THERE *IS* A HAPPY ENDING!   
      
   > In general, there is no evidence for the existence of God, so we   
   > conclude that he does not exist, in the same way that we conclude that   
   > the Easter Bunny does not exist, because there's no evidence for the   
   > existence of that creature.   
      
   Well, that depends on what each individual person is willing to consider   
   to be EVIDENCE and ENOUGH EVIDENCE. And it also depends on whether an   
   individual person is INTERESTED or WILLING to have such a belief, because   
   if an individual person DOES NOT WANT to have a certain belief, they will   
   refuse any evidence that there is. Another important distinction in    
   regards to this subject matter is that there are two different positions   
   that can be taken in regards to realities, truths, facts: 1. A person can   
   decide that they can figure out what these must be; and 2. A person can   
   decide that they will make effort by various means to discover what   
   these are. See the difference? The latter is the correct position to    
   take and will lead a person to the most accurate results.   
      
   Evidence For God:   
      
   Do you believe in intuition? Have you ever had a thought come into your   
   mind, which ended up being correct, and which if you did not follow it   
   you lived to regret? Have you ever had a "gut feeling", which ended up   
   being correct, and which if you did not follow it you lived to regret?   
   Most people have had both of these experiences, including me. I never   
   knew what these things were until I read in The Edgar Cayce Readings   
   that there were two portals in the human body for contact between   
   spirit God and spirit Soul: 1. The area that is a soft-spot on a   
   baby's head, which accounts for the thought coming into one's mind;   
   and 2. The area of the navel, which accounts for the "gut feeling".   
   Having had these experiences since I was born, and which have    
   sometimes had great impact on my life and/or the life of another   
   and/or lives of others, finding this explanation meant a lot to me.   
   In sum, the Readings say that intuition is God's personal communication   
   to an individual person. Taking the concept that God sees and knows   
   everything, this explanation made sense to me because intuition and   
   gut feeling are always right. An all-seeing all-knowing God could   
   certainly always be right. In addition to all of this, one day I felt   
   "led" to visit the A.R.E., and after I got there at a certain point   
   I felt "led" to sit in one of the four chairs in the lobby all of   
   which had no occupants. In two seconds a man swiftly sat down in the   
   chair next to me and I immediately "felt certain" that he was going   
   to speak to me, and thus he did. After an exchange of a few words or   
   so he went straight to posing a question to me - probably the main    
   purpose for which he sat and spoke - which was, "What do you personally   
   see as being the most important information in the Readings?", to   
   which I immediately replied, "The statement that what is called   
   intuition is God speaking to a person." This is the absolute truth: Once   
   I gave him that immediate answer, he immediately said to me that the   
   reason why he was currently at the A.R.E. was because he was ATTENDING   
   THE CONFERENCE ON INTUITION [which conference I had no idea was in    
   process]! We both then shared with each other that we were deeply   
   affected by the experience and exchange of our meeting and then he   
   left to continue with the conference [apparently he had been on a break].   
   In sum, my personal experiences of intuition and gut feeling have, for me   
   personally, been evidence and enough evidence that spirit God exists   
   and that he and I have a living constant relationship. Plus there are   
   other things I consider evidence and enough evidence of God's existence,   
   but I am trying to not write a book here and thought I would at least   
   share one of them.   
      
   Evidence For Soul:   
      
   Evidence for me, and enough evidence for me, beside some other things,   
   that what I am is a Soul - or triune etheric being composed of    
   consciousness + will + spirit, temporarily inhabiting a physical house   
   of clay [after having entered it through the soft-spot of the head,   
   again according to The Edgar Cayce Readings (and sounds right to me)] -   
   is that when the brain was stimulated and mapped, the researchers    
   could, for example, make the person's arm move, BUT THEY COULD NOT   
   MAKE THE PERSON *WANT* TO MOVE THEIR ARM! AHA! TO WHAT BELONGS THE   
   WILL? ACCORDING THUS TO SCIENCES' RESEARCHERS NOT THE BRAIN! SO ANY   
   PERSON WHO SAYS THAT ALL THERE IS IS THE BRAIN AND THAT EVERYTHING   
   DERIVES AND ARISES FROM THE BRAIN HAS TO GO BACK TO SQUARE ONE!   
      
   Debra Dee Freeman   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)