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By: Don’t Take My Playdough | Clif's Notes

Don’t Take My Playdough | Clif's Notes — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:04:28 +0000

[...] following story comes from my friend’s blog. It was told to him by his [...]

By: Don’t Take My Playdough « Clif’s Notes

Don’t Take My Playdough « Clif’s Notes — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:01:21 +0000

[...] Take My Playdough The following story comes from my friend’s blog. It was told to him by his [...]

By: Leland

Leland — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:46:38 +0000

I appreciate your honest thoughts Jeff.

By: Lee Ann

Lee Ann — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:32:21 +0000

Jeff,
Why do I feel like you are the one condemning others for thier beliefs because they are different than yours? It seems to me you are the one calling names and assigning labels. I have no problem with your opinions on this board…they make me think…yes I do think;) Not everyone was forcefed dogma and believed what we were “supposed” to
believe…some came to faith as adults and have looked at this decision from all sides. Their questioned brought them to their beliefs as yours brought you to yours.

By: ken

ken — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:24:36 +0000

i think this story is one reason Jesus said what He did about children, and how they are. if we can only be like them more.

By: ken

ken — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:06:01 +0000

that’s hilarious!!

By: clint

clint — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:07:29 +0000

Jeff,
If you have no proof then you need to get the beam
out of your eye before you try and help someone with the speck in theirs.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:09:17 +0000

To Clint:

1. Please reference where I have called ‘foul’, as you say, for someone calling me out…

2. Since you’ve read my posts, Clint, you should know that I don’t claim to have any proof at all. THAT’S MY POINT.

3. If I’m come to cause trouble, Clint, it’s for those who claim to know God’s will based on little (or no) evidence, and it’s for those who would call names and assign labels based on that same scant evidence.

By: clint

clint — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:31:13 +0000

Jeff,
You say Christians have no proof and should believe the way you do yet where is your proof. You attack others belief but when you are called out you cry foul. Looks like you are playing in a sand box. Again I say you have only come to sow discord.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:47:57 +0000

This is too good of a story to let pass by without a comment…

Haven’t we all felt this very same way ??? Haven’t we all felt that, when small and newborn, we possessed (sp?) something valuable and dear, which subsequently has been taken from us as we’ve grown up into and accepted the roles that people have told us we’re “supposed” to fill, as we’ve accepted the dogmas and believed the things that people have told us that we’re “supposed” to believe ???

With my pro-God, anti-Jesus bias, I suggest to you that when you bowed your head and accepted as true beliefs in such things as the Trinity, things which can’t be proven but only ‘swallowed’, you lost something wonderful and sacred which God gave to you at your birth…

Perhaps what we lose is the proper acknowledgement of the place of humility in the religious world. I say this because we’re apparently all about condemning other people because they either won’t believe in our unproveable miracle stories or they won’t alter their lives because of our unfounded speculations based on things nobody living today has ever seen and which can’t be reproduced…

Fundamentalist Christianity, fundamentalist Islam, fundamentalist Judaism are all, to borrow Jesus’ analogy, built on shifting sands; none of them can withstand the simple question, “Where is your proof ???”

If you still have that little bit of Playdough in your heart that tells you that God is too good to condemn people eternally based on things which are unproven and unproveable, then I tell you, “RUN !!!”

By: reJoyce

reJoyce — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:16:05 +0000

I did both Silly Putty and Play Doh as a kid. I used to do that trick with the funnies, too. Long time ago though!

By: preacherman

preacherman — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:00:15 +0000

I love silly puddy better than playdoug.
I always remember comming home after church and getting out the silly puddy and making pictures on it of the funny pages. It was so much fun. Did any of you enjoy Silly Puddy? Do your kids now? My boys love it!

By: Adam G.

Adam G. — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:28:00 +0000

OH THAT WAS GOOD! I told that and the story from College Church to my wife just now and shared a mighty good laugh.

By: dd

dd — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:49:08 +0000

Lisa, College church has added on a very nice nursery wing with 5 or 6 classrooms east of the auditorium with an easily accessable exit door. There are training/nursing rooms in each of the back corners, also. I can’t think who the child was, but I remember it, b/c my son (6 or 7 at the time) leaned over and whispered to me that the mommy wouldn’t kill the child.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:08:37 +0000

Clint,

I love you! Your sense of humor is impeccable!