Cute Fable - good point!

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At 12:01 PM 9/26/95 -0500, you wrote:
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>The following is an excerpt from Gene Edwards' book entitled, _The
>Highest Life_.  What a true point he brings across.  Thought you might
>enjoy it.  It is a wonderful fable of what it might be like if the
>Lord gave some angels a temporary leave of absence from the spiritual
>realm to live on a planet and then visit earth and stay visible.  They
>are the "real invaders from outer space" ;-).  They come to our realm
>with the same values they always have had in their own realm.

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Michael,

What was the good point that I was supposed to get?  That angels are better
than us?  I thought that we were the *sons* of God, not them.  Remember,
they want what *we* got:
"Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did
minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have
preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven;
which things the angels desire to look into" (1 Peter 1:12).

Also, I'm really upset by the anti-education/civilization overtones in this
"fable."  I can't say that God really ever discouraged education.  In fact,
I seem to remember something about "My people are destroyed for lack of
knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee,
that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of
thy God, I will also forget thy children" (Hosea 4:6).  Also, let us not
forget the importance of education to Daniel and the three Hebrew children.
And let us not forget the education of Paul.

I realize that the fable was made to point out how much wonderful God's
realm was than our own.  But we need to be careful about the message we're
encouraging.  We're saying that it's O. K. to not be educated.  And I'm just
apt to think that our attempts at knowledge, feeble though they may be in
the sight of God, that God still takes pride in the fact that we care enough
about the world that *He* created to learn a little more about it.

I doubt very seriously that any angel in gonna be bored by something in
which God takes pleasure.

Kyle
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