RE: what being apart from the law means.
February 23, 2013 at 9:08 pm
(This post was last modified: February 23, 2013 at 9:22 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(February 22, 2013 at 11:33 pm)FallentoReason Wrote:That was a joke, FTR. But the short answer is I don't know. But since I believe there is a God and that He is both merciful and just...I can only believe He acted consistently on His knowledge of their hearts. My guess is that He would know who had so corrupted themselves with evil that they had lost the capacity to repent. As such they had already died within and being removed from this earth was merely a formality.(February 22, 2013 at 11:27 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: I believe the correct term is "smite".How was all the smiting justified? It contradicts the Christian doctrine of turning the other cheek and the Golden Rule.
(February 22, 2013 at 11:53 pm)Ryantology Wrote: You should take the time you waste here trying to rationalize the insanity you believe and use it to love God. I think he might wonder what the hell you're doing.And what makes you think that Drich's participation here is not an expression of his love for God?
(February 23, 2013 at 6:19 am)Question Mark Wrote: A legitimate reason for believing what the bible says might be helpful though.How's this for a legitimate reason: it teaches us how to love more effectively. That doesn't mean other books and other teaching are not helpful, but most people who earnestly study the bible learn to see an underlying spiritual unity that transcends all the apparent nastiness and contradictions. We learn love and take that with us into the world. That, brother, is a legitimate reason. We believe it because it works.
