Wednesday, february 6, 1980,
daily nebrsskan
page 5
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I have found in my life that the struggle within myself
to find the meaning of life is dull and very boring. I
searched to find my purpose in life for years, always
hitting dead ends. There were always more questions and
there never seemed to be any answers. Someone shared
with me that I didn't need to fight and struggle to find
answers. I just had to believe in Jesus Christ and what He
did forme. v
This man claims to be God, who came down to earth
to save the lost. Now, the story is told, in the Bible, that
God made Himself into a human, Jesus Christ. He told the
world about God and his love for years, and then, the
people who He loved so much, crucified Him. He died a
horrible death so that we may live forever. Christ died to
wash away our sins. I don't think Jesus Christ can be sold
like corn flakes. He is real and alive today. When I re
ceived Jesus Christ into my life it was no cheap thrill. He
is very real. He can change lives.
The message that Josh told the students is real and
meaningful. Josh has answers for the questions that
people are asking. He has solutions to problems. Before
anyone cuts down Josh and his message, go hear him.
Judge for yourself if he is just selling com flakes or the
real thing. No one has all the answers. Only Jesus Christ
does.
Emily Allen
SophomoreJournalism
Political Science
'Maybe Jesus right'
Last Friday night I asked Josh McDowell a question
about a confusing passage of New Testament scripture. He
inougni ior a moment ana men gave Ms onet answer. 1
suppose that he is capable of better answers, but the point
that I wish to make is not that his answer was good or
bad, but that his method of arriving at his answer was
dubious (because we discussed the quote out of context)
as it is in his book Evidence That Demands a Verdict.
Some students have been defending Josh in the name
of his scholarship and intellectualism in Christianity on
the popular level. Josh McDowell is intellectual toa
certain degree.
There is, no doubt, merit in studying 100 hours for
each minute of lecture, but that alone does not constitute
being scholarly; few seniors as this university who have
been put in several thousand hours of study and investi--gation,
can be considered scholars in their own major area
of study.
The; reason most of us are not yet scholars is because it
is one thing to learn facts and quite'another to discover
their true meaning Scholarship does not mean being a
poached egg." It means considering all the data and all
the alternative, theories in hopes ot discovering, oy a con
sistent method, the most probable meaning of some facts.
It is apparent to anyone familiar with the field , of
Biblical study that Josh McDowell has fewer hours of
study per minute of public lecture time than most our
competent lecturers on the subject, and that his "argu
ments" in his books do not consider data that don't fit
into his scheme. This is clear if you go to the-library and
study a book that does treat this data as an integrated
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So it is unfortunate if people take Josh's challenge and
then stop where he stands, satisfied that they have the
right answers in the light of incomplete arguments. It ,
would be better for those who stop there to never have
started.
Paul Kloepper
SeniorLife Sciences
The first page article in Friday's Daily Nebraskan.de
. scribing the suit planned against Josh McDowell and the
four campus groups who sponsored him, is interesting
news considering the content of Josh's Wednesday night
talk at the Nebraska Union.
His talk definitely did not feature religious worship. In
honestly and intellectually looking at the historical evi
dence pointing -to the resurrection of Jesus Christ, Mr.
McDowell explained that his initial efforts (and the efforts
of others) to disprove the resurrection led to the con
elusion that this is a historical event and not a myth. To
say that this lecture on Roman history at the time of
Jesus would be a religious testimony-look folks, the mere
mention of the name of Jesus Christ should not be
grounds for removal of the right to discuss the subject
from an objective historical perspective. The revocation of
the charters of the Baptist Student Union, Campus Cm
sade for Christ, Inter-varsity Christian Fellowship and the
Navigators4JNL would be a flagrant violation of the right t
to freedom of religion guaranteed by the U.S.
Constitution and its amendments.
Christian lecturer (not activist) Josh McDowell did not
try to force Christianity down anybody's throat. Each
individual has the right to accept or reject what Mr.
McDowell said. But to deny him the right to speak on this
campus is forcing a non-Christian attitude on the students
of this university. Or is it that certain people on this
campus are afraid to hear what Josh has to say because
perhaps, just maybe, Jesus is right? Y
Sincerely,
Richard Heim
Graduate College
Continued from page 4
Now we are turning over baleful attention to the
military.
There are young Americans whose families cannot
afford their college educations? Let the military send
them to college. Joblessness continues to plague our
minorities? Let them enlist and get off the street corners
and unemployment rolls.
Too many young people are lacking in basic discipline?
Let the Army make men of them.
Men? Haven't we decided that it's sexist to make such
distinctions? Then let's see to it that our armed forces
including the service academies and combat units are
open to women as well as men.
It won't surprise me if someday soon, having decided
that discrimination against the handicapped is bad public
policy, we demand that . the armed forces stop giving
physical examinations-except, perhaps, as a basis for in
stituting a program of universal rehabilitation.
I would no more argue that the military should resume
its pointless discrimination than demand that the schools
assign black pupils only to black schools.
Lam only suggesting that our zeal to correct a host of
social wrongs should not obscure our first priorities. In
the case of schools, it is educating our children; in the case
of the military, it is to see to the national defense.
In those instances where it is possible to achieve secon
dary purposes without sacrificing primary ones, then let
us do both.
On that basis, allowing women to enlist in the armed
forces-or drafting them if the draft is resumed-might be
a reasonable thing to do. I spent my two years of con
scription doing things for which my maleness was no par
ticular advantage. The fact that my unit was all-male
served no useful purpose.
But if I had been assigned to a rifle unit, or a tank
brigade, it would have made no sense for assignment
officers to pretend there was no difference between men
and women.
Similarly, like many other ex-servicemen, I recall a
number of young recruits who did a lot of growing up,
thanks to military discipline. There are times when I think
. that mandatory military service might help a lot of imma
ture young people to grow up.
But to say that a lot of people could benetit trom mili
tary discipline is not to say that the military should draft
people in excess of its own needs. If it enhances the
. national defense, or at any rate doesn't detract from it,
then fine. Otherwise, we have to look for other ways to
deal with the problem of discipline.
Should women be required to register, now that the
President has decided to reinstitute registration? Of
course. Should women as well as men be subject to a rein
stituted draft? Probably.
Should the military disregard distinctions between men
and women when it comes to specific assignments?
Don't be silly.
(c) 1980, The Washington Post Company
Correction
In Tuesday's article on the University Program
Council the budget request was incorrectly report
ed, due to an editor's error. The request is .45 per
cent larger than last year's request.
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