RE: Does the positive side of tribalism/racism outshine the negative side?
August 12, 2020 at 8:42 am
(This post was last modified: August 12, 2020 at 8:47 am by The Grand Nudger.)
-Rationalizations such as the above.
Hardening of the heart can most certainly annihilate salvation. You insist that it provides the opportunity to be broken, but we don't all break, and there are a great many of us who respond to attempts to break us with an even greater hardening of the heart.
I presume the author of creation knows this. Here again, though, you present another compulsion to instrumental goods in spite of their moral evil. he hardening of hearts is good-for salvation, you contend, while assiduously avoiding the very real possibility and actuality that the hardening of hearts is not only bad, but will predictably fail to achieve it's own goals. We do bad things on the notion that they might help us to achieve some desired end, which we think is good. We insist that god is like us in this regard.
Hardening of the heart can most certainly annihilate salvation. You insist that it provides the opportunity to be broken, but we don't all break, and there are a great many of us who respond to attempts to break us with an even greater hardening of the heart.
I presume the author of creation knows this. Here again, though, you present another compulsion to instrumental goods in spite of their moral evil. he hardening of hearts is good-for salvation, you contend, while assiduously avoiding the very real possibility and actuality that the hardening of hearts is not only bad, but will predictably fail to achieve it's own goals. We do bad things on the notion that they might help us to achieve some desired end, which we think is good. We insist that god is like us in this regard.
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