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Re: 22/7 & infinities (was: Re: The nature of the JC god, good or evil?)
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Tue, 24 Aug 1999 13:59:20 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jesse Long writes:
> I prefer the security of knowing I was more than an accident, and that the
> things I do have eternal significance. I like my God, and if He wants to
> define justice as giving you your entire life to accept Christ and then
> basing all of eternity on that decision, then so be it. He may not live up
> to your standards of justice, but you haven't told us where you get your
> standards of justice in the first place. If you get them from this world,
> then why are you surprised that they disagree with God's standards?
Trouble is it doesn't look to me like it really is 'God's standards' your
pushing. It looks to me more like a set of standards that *PEOPLE*
have come up with by following through one particular, and highly
questionable, interpretation of the Bible.
> The
> Bible paints a picture of man in rebellion against God, why shouldn't his
> definitions be different? Why are you surprised that God condemns as sin
> things people today don't want to call sin (sex outside of marriage,
> homosexuality, drunkenness, gluttony)? As difficult as they are, I prefer
> God's standards, because it means that there are standards that are
> absolute, and that things like bestiality and pedophilia are absolutely
> wrong, not just some evil today that are going to be perfectly acceptable
> someday. I'd rather be a sinner in a world of perfect standards and have a
> chance to be forgiven than be perfect in my own self-defined universe that
> doesn't even extend beyond my own mind.
OK. You haven't said it, but I from what you're saying it sounds like you
are basing your beliefs on having taken the Bible fairly literally as the
Word of God.
So how do you explain this?
Acts 1:18. (With the reward he got for his wickedness, Judas bought a field.;
there he fell headlong, his body burst open and all his intestines spilled out.
Matthew 27:5. So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he
went away and hanged himself.
Presumably you're not going to claim that both of these are true? Yet they
are both very clearly written down.
Simon
http://www.SimonRobinson.com
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