RE: Does the positive side of tribalism/racism outshine the negative side?
August 10, 2020 at 5:30 pm
If the heart is the mind in this case then yes. Perhaps God doesn't directly harden the heart. God, through the Holy Spirit, influences our mind to harden our heart. He could also indirectly harden a un/believers heart because he understands the heart and what impact different interceding events would have on that heart. That all seems quite in line with my beliefs. I even suppose God could forcibly harden the heart if He desired as well. I suppose that by showing and then following Jesus' example God would be indirectly affecting the hardnes of the heart as well.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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