(February 3, 2018 at 6:53 pm)Banned Wrote:(February 3, 2018 at 3:43 pm)Cyberman Wrote: I'm just curious as to how far the goalposts have to move.
You can only be accepted for what and who you are in the moment, without any changes, otherwise it isn't acceptance at all.
Christ gave the parable of the Shepherd who left the fold and went after the lost one.
God is interested in those who have nothing to offer except themselves as they are, without modification.
Because as soon as a change is required for love, it is no longer love, but a perverse recruitment.
And I repeat, how do you know any of this? You're making some pretty definitive knowledge claims; I want to see the justification for them.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'