(November 30, 2014 at 4:15 pm)Lek Wrote: It was quite a reward, not withstanding that he received the gift of eternal life with God.Which could be taken from him at any time, on god's whim, whether he did anything to provoke it or not. So now he gets to spend eternity looking over his shoulder.
Lek Wrote:I know. I feel sorry for the poor guy too, but people were never saved by following the law. Even the old testament saints were saved not by following the law, but by their faith in the coming savior.The young man falls at Jesus' feet and calls him "good teacher" and asks what he must do to gain salvation. Looks like he had a lot of faith in the coming savior. It didn't pay off, though, because the teacher suddenly decided that even that wouldn't be enough.
Lek Wrote:No. Serve him all your life and you'll receive the reward of eternal life with him.Unless he decides that you didn't fulfill some arbitrary, off-the-cuff qualification, in which case you're screwed.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
