[Ohio]

aron, tragic indeed.

I was just given a booklet by Ray Comfort, Scientific Facts in the Bible. In the Intro, he proposes a potential narrative, " Imagine you are viewing a luxury liner moving thru calm waters. To your amazement, a dozen people jump off clinging to a lifeboat. The rest of the passengers laugh at their stupidity. What they did was so foolish, it made no sense. Suddenly the ship hits an iceberg and sinks..."

The author is an evangelist with a gospel message, but it also applied to the LC mindset. What is one to do when raised from birth that everything ever needed must be found in that ship? No matter what dangers lied ahead, one must never leave the boat.

I have watched young people, who knew nothing about Christians beyond the Recovery, so immature towards life in general, able to so easily spout off wholesale condemnations of the entire body of Christ. Nothing out there of any value!

When their own "ship" begins tossing in the "wind and waves" of life, what options do they have? Do they really have the Lord at their side? Can they find a safe "lifeboat" with other children of God? Can they swim to a "lighthouse" on the distant shore?

Or do they only see a coming disaster because they have they been programmed with "learned helplessness?"