Just got this today, and said to share it.

Enjoy

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This is a true story of something that happened just a few years ago at USC.


There was a professor of philosophy there who was a deeply committed atheist.


His primary goal for one required class was to spend the entire semester to prove that God couldn't exist.


His students were always afraid to argue with him because of his impeccable logic.


Sure, some had argued in class at times, but no one had ever really gone against him because of his reputation.


At the end of every semester on the last day, he would say to his class of 300 students, "If there is anyone here who still believes in Jesus, stand up!"


In twenty years, no one had ever stood up. They knew what he was going to do next. He would say, "Because anyone who believes in God is a fool".


If God existed, he could stop this piece of chalk from hitting the ground and breaking. Such a simple task to prove that He is God, and yet He can't do it."


And every year, he would drop the chalk onto the tile floor of the classroom and it would shatter into a hundred pieces.


All of the students would do nothing but stop and stare.


Most of the students thought that God couldn't exist. Certainly, a number of Christians had slipped through, but! for 20 years, they had been too afraid to stand up.


Well, a few years ago there was a freshman who happened to enroll.


He was a Christian, and had heard the stories about his professor.


He was required to take the class for his major, and he was afraid. But for three months that semester, he prayed every morning that he would have the courage to stand up no matter what the professor said, or what the class thought.


Nothing they said could ever shatter his faith, he hoped.


Finally, the day came. ! The professor said, "If there is anyone here who still believes in God, stand up!" The professor and the class of 300 people looked at him, shocked, as he stood up at the back of the classroom.


The professor shouted, "You FOOL!!!


If God existed, he would keep this piece of chalk from breaking when it hit the ground!"


He proceeded to drop the chalk, but as he did, it slipped out of his fingers, off his shirt cuff, onto the pleat of his pants, down his leg, and off his shoe. As it hit the ground, it simply rolled away unbroken. The professor's jaw dropped as he stared at the chalk. He looked up at the young man, and then ran out of the lecture hall.


The young man who had stood, proceeded to walk to the front of the room and shared his faith in Jesus for the next half hour. 300 students stayed and listened as he told of God's love for them and of His power through Jesus.


End.

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In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different:


This is not intended to be a joke, it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking,


Isn't it funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell.


Isn't it funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says.


Isn't it funny how everyone wants to go to heaven provided they do not have to believe, think, say, or do anything the Bible says. Or is it scary?


Isn't it funny how someone can say "I believe in God" but still follow Satan


(who, by the way, also "believes" in God ).


Isn't it funny how you can send a thousand! jokes through e-mail and they spread like wildfire,


but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing.


Isn't it funny how the lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene pass freely through cyberspace, but the public discussion of Jesus is suppressed in the school and workplace.


Isn't it funny how someone can be so fired up for Christ on Sunday, but be an invisible
Christian the rest of the week.


Are you laughing? !


Isn't it funny how when you go to forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it to them.


Isn't it funny how I can be more worried about what other people think of me than what God thinks of me.

another urban legend to rally the gullible behind the good cause
sad

Gods existence cannot be logically proven. you have to experience something to make you want to believe there is a greater force controlling the universe, or you may have an experience that makes you question his existence.

whichever you choose, just make sure you are convinced about it. i still insist its safer to assume there is a God and find out there is no God, than to try to convince your self he doesnt exist and find out he does exist!!!

@Aproko,
In my own narrow perception and comprehension, I think there are numerous ways which the existance of God can be proven. ie
Think of water/rain; who does control its falling?
Trees or rather plants, how are they growing?
Think of life and death, who could do such or provide 'em?
Think of our own existance; who provides us with the air to resperate?
And host more, are these not some proves concerning existance of God?

Thanks

purpleh:

Just got this today, and said to share it.

Enjoy

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This is a true story of something that happened just a few years ago at USC.

That's an outright lie. Stop lying for God. It's not clever and it only prevents people from taking Christians seriously.

muhsin:

@Aproko,
In my own narrow perception and comprehension, I think there are numerous ways which the existance of God can be proven. ie

Asking vague questions and relying on gaps in knowledge aren't evidence for a supernatural being.

Think of water/rain; who does control its falling?

Nobody, although to a certain extent, the actions of human beings may affect the rate and intesity of rainfall

Trees or rather plants, how are they growing?

Biological and chemical processes that I'm allowed to be vague about.

Think of life and death, who could do such or provide 'em?

Life: it's usually provided by other life forms. Death: depends on how it happens.

Think of our own existance; who provides us with the air to resperate?

No one.

And host more, are these not some proves concerning existance of God?

Thanks

No.

muhsin:

@Aproko,
In my own narrow perception and comprehension, I think there are numerous ways which the existance of God can be proven. ie
Think of water/rain; who does control its falling?
Trees or rather plants, how are they growing?
Think of life and death, who could do such or provide 'em?
Think of our own existance; who provides us with the air to resperate?
And host more, are these not some proves concerning existance of God?

Thanks

mushin, if you want to have an argument with the logical thinkers, you would actually loose. our belief in jesus and God is actually called faith - the evidence of things hoped for and the assurance of things not seen.

scientist have an answer for everything but the concept of God, that is why the debate will go on and on. maybe someday, there will be a logical explanation for God but till then enjoy their arguments.

@GAF :

If you patiently go through my post, I have stated in the first line that I was only sharing with fellow Nairalanders what was sent to me.

Please do not personalise this.

purpleh:

@GAF :

If you patiently go through my post, I have stated in the first line that I was only sharing with fellow Nairalanders what was sent to me.

Please do not personalise this.

In my opinion, the fact that you chose to pass on a story that is so obviously not true but claims to be true implicates you to a certain degree. To then refrain from acknowledging it, makes it worse.

@GAF:

So what makes you an authority on what is true or not ?

purpleh:

@GAF:

I didn't get a chance to commend you on the imaginative title you've assigned to me. Kudos.

So what makes you an authority on what is true or not ?

You think the story you posted is true?

@GAF
I have not said the story is true or not. What I have simply done is to share what was sent to me.
Anyways, everybody is entitled to his/her own opinion.

I rest my case.

purpleh:

@GAF
I have not said the story is true or not. What I have simply done is to share what was sent to me.

This was at the beginning: "This is a true story of something that happened just a few years ago at USC." [Emphasis mine]

Anyways, everybody is entitled to his/her own opinion.

I rest my case.

Indeed. I have to wonder though whether Christians truly believe that stories like this help their report in anyway.

@ Aproko and KAG,

Oh sorry for sounding- to your understanding- harsh and hard or rather isulting. I out-and-out don't mean to attack any religion, be it Christianity, Islam or any other belief. But why and why always are you miscontrueng poeple and change them their direction anyway?

Please, I know as it plainly is; that you both understand English much more than I. But please, I beg, go back. Re-read my post. Why in God's name I did sound like talking about a particular religion. Did I gain say I'm a Muslim or Christian or traditionalist or any other follower?

C'mon my good people. Come off it!

Thanks

@ mushin,

i did read your post that was why i inserted your quote.

i'm sorry if i got the impression you were a christain and at the expense of sounding as if i dont understand english, i dare say again that the existence of God cannot be logically proven.

your questions about the rain, the air we breathe would definitely get a scientific and logical answer that may not point to the existence of a God!!!so even if you dont belong to any particular religion, your reference to the rain, the air we breathe is not exactly convincing to the logical thinker that there is a God.