(April 14, 2014 at 9:17 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: I can't judge a person's heart, but Jesus said you can tell a tree by the fruit it produces.If you pick the fruit from a tree, you will judge whether it is fit to consume or not. It is unlikely that the fruit will either be perfect for consumption or so rotten that it must be discarded. Still, there is a line where you would determine that the fruit is fit to eat or not, and a line where you would decide to discard it rather than eat it or leave it.
Where is the line that makes a Christian saved or damned? If you can dismiss the actions of a self-professed Christian because the actions were not Christian, then that means a Christian is one who performs Christian acts. If so, then there are no Christians.
Where is the line drawn?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould