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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: thames_sider who wrote (10598)	4/5/2001 8:42:32 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 82486

Where did Christ ever demand a belief in him to enter paradise? They say the light that burns twice as bright only burns half as long. Christ was about 30 when he departed this world, you should make about 90.

To: thames_sider who wrote (10598)	4/5/2001 11:35:16 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 82486

Good questions all. However, if God is just, then He must hold us accountable. Even in mercy, justice must be satisfied to some extent, we cannot pretend that the offense didn't matter. Thus, we must want forgiveness to receive it, as a concession to the demands of justice. How that may come about, I leave up in the air. As for allowing sin and evil, the universe was created postulating beings capable of free choice, able to respond to experience and participate in shaping their lives and character. They were, so to speak, co- shapers of the world. If freedom is postulated, rebellion and sin must be possible, and if they are possible, one cannot continually erase their consequences, or choice means nothing. One of the consequences is the disruption of the natural order, as evil undermines the human order and emanates beyond. These, in summary, are more or less the traditional answers, as reworked by me......