At 03:40 PM 2/20/2008 -0600, Stephen Russell wrote: ... > > It's that free will thing. If love is forced, it means nothing. > > Besides, He doesn't condemn anyone. You do it to yourself by refusing to > > recognize your creator and thinking man is the measure of all > things. Which > > brings us to the ultimate sin... not murder, rape, torture or anything like > > that... it's pride, thinking everything revolves around us. > > >----------------------------------------------------- > >Larry this conversation revolves around the fact that some people can't >comprehend that God is love. If they want to attack the essence of God they >confuse love with infatuation. They think that they can measure it and >quantify it. Silly people.
And I think there's another aspect to it. God is also Just. And just like God's Love, people don't understand his sense of Justice. Clearly, when we (mankind) made the wrong choice in the beginning He would have been justified to wipe us out. At least according to "our" understanding of justice. But He didn't. Perhaps that was an expression of his Love. When He lets someone choose their way into Hell, to me, that is an expression of his Justice Non-believers and believers alike project their own attitudes and understanding and make claims about God, or lack thereof (just like I did above). So, of course, the natural outcome of such thinking is to believe we could do a much better job of running the universe if we were omnipotent. Yep, prideful to the hilt. However, a believer (specifically a Christian believer) will swallow their pride, non-believers will not. -Charlie _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
