RE: Abusive Theology 101
August 6, 2013 at 7:01 pm
(This post was last modified: August 6, 2013 at 7:03 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
Is it special pleading if you to punish your child for stealing whisky from the liquor cabinet? No. Because everyone recognizes that adults, by virtue of their knowledge, experience and level of responsibility have a different moral status than their children.
Instead of some hypothetical parable, let's talk about the here and now as it relates to you. Did any of you pay money to hear the Gospel? Does accepting the love of Jesus cost you anything at all? No. It doesn't and it never has.
The problem is this. You think that recognizing God as God is somehow the same as deifying yourself and demanding another human being to worship you as a god. If you cannot see the error in that then how can you make a distinction between adults and children?
Instead of some hypothetical parable, let's talk about the here and now as it relates to you. Did any of you pay money to hear the Gospel? Does accepting the love of Jesus cost you anything at all? No. It doesn't and it never has.
The problem is this. You think that recognizing God as God is somehow the same as deifying yourself and demanding another human being to worship you as a god. If you cannot see the error in that then how can you make a distinction between adults and children?
