Fw: [Seekers] Punishment
Brian Dean bridean@worldnet.att.net
Wed, 4 Mar 1998 23:18:21 -0500 (00889093101, 19980305041055.AAA9727@briandea)
LINDA
Why does it seem that in the "church world" everything must be
"absolute"... black and white... right and wrong. We all know in
the REAL world there is good and bad in everyone. There is some truth in
many things and some falsehood in all things.
WARD
Ok, without the Bible, prove to me that anyone's definition of "right"
and "wrong" is absolute.
Linda, if I walk over and kill Chuck in cold blood, try to prove to me
without the Bible that it's wrong. You can't, cause without the Bible
you have no absolutes.
Linda, for so long you have believed in preterism, but you cannot
tell me its the truth with your view. At least be consistent. Don't pull a
Davey and pick and choose what you believe is the word of God.
LINDA
Many would assert that the Bible is ABSOLUTE truth yet its very own
pages nullify that assertion. They illustrate damnation and salvation
but the stories portray the guilty as being delivered (David and Uriah) and
the innocent and best... punished and persecuted (Christ).
WARD
Again, without the Bible, who are you to tell me its wrong to steal?
Because society says so?????? Absurd. Some societies teach it is very
proper to eat your babies. So then now it's a cultural ISSUE?????
Right!
MICHAEL
Okay Ward, maybe you can solve the following quiz. I've given it to
almost a dozen different professing Christians on assorted different lists. So
fat none have succeeded. Maybe, since you're so sure of yourself, you can
succeed where they have failed to so much as make an attempt:
BRIDEAN
*sniped Michael's quiz because Ron does not address it even though it
was the original reason I forwarded it to him*
RON
Linda did not answer one of Ward's questions. Instead she asked him to
define some words. Her notions of what is right and wrong are based on
her Christian cultural background. Without God there is no right or
wrong, just power and weakness.