Huu Door
Romans 1:19: ……for the Truth about God is manifestly shown (in them).
20: From the time the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky and
everything that God made. They can clearly see His invisible qualities, His eternal
power, and His divine nature, so they have no valid excuse what-soever, for not
knowing of God.
21:Yes, they knew of God, but they wouldn’t worship Him as God, or even give
Him thanks. (NLT)
Romans 1:19: ……for the Truth about God is manifestly shown (in them).
20: From the time the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky and
everything that God made. They can clearly see His invisible qualities, His eternal
power, and His divine nature, so they have no valid excuse what-soever, for not
knowing of God.
21:Yes, they knew of God, but they wouldn’t worship Him as God, or even give
Him thanks. (NLT)
Can You Swim?
786
as-salaam 'alaykum.
This is a story about how mental knowledge can be practical or artificial.
Can You Swim?
There was a monk, and he was a very learned person with many writings that were accepted as
good teachings. He was on his way to take all the books to the center of his order. On that
journey there was a wide and dangerous river to cross. The monk retained a boatman to carry
him and his baggage across the river.
On the way a whirlpool appeared and was tipping over the boat. First the books fell, and then the
baggage and food. Then the boat began to break up and take on water. The boatman then asked
the monk about what he had learned in his studies. "Can you swim?" he said. The monk said no.
He had not learned anything about nature although he was very brilliant in literature. The boatman
said: "Too bad", and he jumped in, cleared the wreckage, and then began to swim to shore. The
monk tried to jump, but his robes got caught in the wreckage, and was caught in the whirlpool
and went down like a stone.
The boatman thought about the monk as he was swimming. The monk called out to God to save
him and he drowned immediately. I believe in God but I called on my composure and experience
in water to save me. I wasn’t thinking about God, but my salvation came automatically. The monk
was calling on God and invoking angels and everything so intelligently, but he was so frozen by
fear there was nothing that could be done. I could have helped him if he would have listened to
me. If he had took off his robes and then paddled away from the wreck, I could have pulled him
to shore. But he was so panic stricken that I could not even get close or he would have drowned
me as well.
All the next few days he was sorry for the monk and he was wondering what benefit religious
training really had for the practical life of a man.
Top
as-salaam 'alaykum.
This is a story about how mental knowledge can be practical or artificial.
Can You Swim?
There was a monk, and he was a very learned person with many writings that were accepted as
good teachings. He was on his way to take all the books to the center of his order. On that
journey there was a wide and dangerous river to cross. The monk retained a boatman to carry
him and his baggage across the river.
On the way a whirlpool appeared and was tipping over the boat. First the books fell, and then the
baggage and food. Then the boat began to break up and take on water. The boatman then asked
the monk about what he had learned in his studies. "Can you swim?" he said. The monk said no.
He had not learned anything about nature although he was very brilliant in literature. The boatman
said: "Too bad", and he jumped in, cleared the wreckage, and then began to swim to shore. The
monk tried to jump, but his robes got caught in the wreckage, and was caught in the whirlpool
and went down like a stone.
The boatman thought about the monk as he was swimming. The monk called out to God to save
him and he drowned immediately. I believe in God but I called on my composure and experience
in water to save me. I wasn’t thinking about God, but my salvation came automatically. The monk
was calling on God and invoking angels and everything so intelligently, but he was so frozen by
fear there was nothing that could be done. I could have helped him if he would have listened to
me. If he had took off his robes and then paddled away from the wreck, I could have pulled him
to shore. But he was so panic stricken that I could not even get close or he would have drowned
me as well.
All the next few days he was sorry for the monk and he was wondering what benefit religious
training really had for the practical life of a man.
Top
Hudoor Home
 | |  | |  | |  | |  | |  | |  | |  |
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |