Caroline wrote: Someone asked about Jeffrey Dahmer - or at least that's who I think the poster was referring to when he said homo cannibal. If Jeffrey Dahmer accepted Jesus and if he called upon the name of Jesus and pled the blood of Christ, God would have to love him and say to him, "welcome my son" wouldn't He? That's the rules isn't it? Who we were and what we did have no bearing on God isn't it? It's just the one criteria - did he or didn't he say the Sinner's prayer isn't it? Ditto for people who may have said it in youth camp when they were 8 and later became a Hitler or Osama Bin Ladin too, right? Do good all your life but still roast in hell if you're Buddhist. Be nasty and eat people but say the Sinner's prayer and you're in, right? Everything else is just blah, blah, blah whatever in God's ears, right? No pleading ignorance, special circumstances, victimization, abuse, insanity, boring sermons.... BTW, Jeffrey Dahmer did confess Christ and converted before he died. Caroline
BLAINE: Hi Caroline!! This is an interesting line of thought. I am thinking about what you have written, will let you know later, maybe, what enters my brain. As for now, I am glad Jeffery D. made some sort of peace with his God, or at least He whom he was taught was God. For some reason, however, I feel a little uneasy with the thought that he got off so easily, just confessing Christ and etc. He destroyed a lot of lives, and I find it hard to believe he will be up there in heaven with a halo after all that. Hmm, as I said, I will give this some thought. I guess what I am thinking at the moment is that repentance may be more difficult and more time consuming than most traditional Christians might believe. I believe it is possible, but the human psych being what it is, self-forgiveness is important, and I feel Jeffery may have some problems in this area. I am reminded of the story of a man who killed an entire family in Viet Nam, and later went off his rocker and had to be committed to an insane asylum--one problem was t hat he kept seeing the family he killed appear at his bedside at night, apparently wanting to know what his justification was. Since he had none, he went off the deep end. I believe it is an inherant human need to justify what one does, and if one cannot do this, he cannot obtain true forgiveness, whether accepting Jesus or no. ---------- "Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man." (Colossians 4:6) http://www.InnGlory.org If you do not want to receive posts from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you will be unsubscribed. If you have a friend who wants to join, tell him to send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and he will be subscribed.
