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,
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:)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).

	The good point from this was how we as humans still robed in the 
flesh and at war with the flesh, always find something that we will let
creep into a position that is higher than God.  The story brought the 
point of PRIDE in several of their accomplishments as humans rather than 
showing of the wonderful mercy that they had received from God.

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:)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.

	Being someone in Graduate School, I don't feel that there were
anti-education or civilization overtones.  The story was merely a humorous
story about what people will spend every waking hour doing and working
on rather than giving time to God.  No reason to be offended here, brother.

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:)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.

	Knowledge is a wonderful thing but don't let it posess you.

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

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