Reflections on good and evil

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researchtwo@lorenzocrescini.it - 08 Aug 2006 17:54 GMT

My name is Lorenzo Crescini and I'm Italian. These "Flashes on
Good and evil" reflect the same mood characterizing the Flashes on
the Holy Gospels and Turin's Holy Shroud I wrote in Africa: making
myself useful to our Lord Jesus Christ.
I will start by quoting the best Prayer to Jesus I've ever read.
At the very beginning some reflections concern the devil one.
I thank all those who will read me, write to me, will ask for an
explanation and those who will be able and willing to advertise what
they read by Web, the press or however they like.
I am confident that the last of my Reflections containing a few lined
short account of my life, will be devoted to all of us who are proud
of the Lord.

Web site
www.lorenzocrescini.it/reflections
personal e-mail for communications
ricercapap@lorenzocrescini.it

Best regards

Here are three Reflections as an example

24)    One cannot or mustn't say to those who are ill and suffering: "
That's God who puts you to the test". In this way we would offend
The God of Endless Love who cannot wish our suffering. One needs say to
those who suffer: " God's Son himself suffered because of evil, but
you will also resurrect with Him, as He did". That is the truth and
only the truth can give one who suffers the Hope which won't let him
fall into that despair the devil one wants to seize his soul and
conscience! Saying: "it's God who puts you to the test" gives a
suffering man the same relief a learned lecture on food chemistry gives
a starving one.

29)    We can give or take from God, Creator of all things, nothing,
except for two things: we can take from Him Honour by offending Him
with our refusal, we can give Him our love, by accepting Him in our
heart! With what insolence might we wish or boast His Light one day,
we, if we had denied Him all life long, being able to believe Him and
not doing that?

38)    There are many Evangelic miracles showing the spontaneity of a
memory, neither built nor adapted, which nevertheless is engraved in
the memory of those who were present to the event. It is from conveyed
small details that the truth of the memory of a lived and handed down
episode transpires.

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JoeLake - 09 Aug 2006 13:41 GMT

Did I miss something?
I could have sworn this was a programming group, not a theology
group....

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Edmond Dantes - 16 Aug 2006 18:41 GMT

> Did I miss something?
> I could have sworn this was a programming group, not a theology
> group....

Perhaps they need to be reprogrammed to understand this.

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Inácio Ferrarini - 10 Aug 2006 11:38 GMT

Hi there, Mr. Lorenzo Crescini,

Sorry, but I think you have mistaken the group.
This group is related to game programming, not to theology.
The group respects the people´s choices and opinions (about religion),
so looks like you are mistaken.

Hope I Helped,
- Inácio Ferrarini.

> My name is Lorenzo Crescini and I'm Italian. These "Flashes on
> Good and evil" reflect the same mood characterizing the Flashes on
[quoted text clipped - 41 lines]
> small details that the truth of the memory of a lived and handed down
> episode transpires.

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Candide - 28 Aug 2006 05:29 GMT

>My name is Lorenzo Crescini and I'm Italian. These "Flashes on
>Good and evil" reflect the same mood characterizing the Flashes on
[quoted text clipped - 20 lines]
>24) One cannot or mustn't say to those who are ill and suffering: "
>That's God who puts you to the test".

Presuming God as creator, perhaps we are god's test of himself. Do we not
have self-will? Whether this gift was given by Deity or force of nature, or
abstraction of quantum mechanics, is the imperative of self-will a belief in
a fable of Jesus Christ resurrection, or is it a drive toward continuation
and exploration? Are we to deny our observations in order to accept a
selfish individual salvation or should we, perhaps, use our gifts to the best
of our abilities to achieve eternal peace and continuation universally? I do
not think I disagree with you, only that the terms you use are too narrow;
abused by centuries of misuse.

What puts us to the test? We live in a hostile environment, but we have
dominated it, and are even beginning to study our effect on it. Perhaps we
will destroy ourselves in a whimper by modifying our environment past the
point of no return. Or perhaps we will destroy ourselves in a bang, as the
most dangerous test of all will be the test of ourselves.

There is most definitely a test, and whether or not this test is God is a
matter of opinion. But it is definitely us.

> In this way we would offend
>The God of Endless Love who cannot wish our suffering. One needs say to
>those who suffer: " God's Son himself suffered because of evil, but
>you will also resurrect with Him, as He did".

Must one believe in resurrection to desire peace, and believe in a force
which does not wish suffering? No. Jesus has offered a gift, and I accept
it in the spirit it was intended--a man who believed in the power of
forgiveness, and perhaps in the power of himself to grant such forgiveness.
I take his forgiveness at face value, and do not make a judgement on it's
precise worth. Jesus does not say if you do not believe in him you are
damned. He only assures the converse.

I cannot believe anything except that when I am dead, I will cease to exist
as a singular entity. However, I do not see myself as a singular entity now.
I am made of millions or billions of individual cells working together, who
have agreed to stop bickering among themselves and agreed to work together.

> That is the truth and
>only the truth can give one who suffers the Hope which won't let him
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
>except for two things: we can take from Him Honour by offending Him
>with our refusal,

Our refusal to see with our eyes and to hear with our ears and to feel with
our skin and to think with our brains would be an offense to whatever force
has put us together.

> we can give Him our love, by accepting Him in our
>heart! With what insolence might we wish or boast His Light one day,
>we, if we had denied Him all life long, being able to believe Him and
>not doing that?

...and this choice of believing Him or not believing Him is a terribly
complex issue. It is not insolent to believe what you believe. It is honest.
It is insolent and insensitive to define other people's beliefs through your
own narrow perspective and then to tell them they are being unreasonable.
There is no person who has not defined their own concept of reality, and this
concept defines their system of belief. Some believe with their eyes wide
open, and some believe with their eyes firmly shut. Some believe nothing but
what they read in a book. Who do you think seems insolent?

>38) There are many Evangelic miracles showing the spontaneity of a
>memory, neither built nor adapted, which nevertheless is engraved in
>the memory of those who were present to the event. It is from conveyed
>small details that the truth of the memory of a lived and handed down
>episode transpires.

I don't know what that means, but I can only remind you that you may not pass
God's judgment on people. No person can. But I take your words here as
being aimed at saving us from ourselves and from destruction. I don't take a
cynical view--You've said nothing that makes me believe your intent is self-
serving.

It is just that I insist upon seeing other hope and other options besides
that eternal salvation in death offered by Jesus Christ, even as the world
around me is destroyed by war and famine.

With Respect and Love,
Candide

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