No lie in the offer of salvation
Bruce Monson errancy@infidels.org
Thu, 22 Jul 1999 11:04:32 -0600 (00932681072, 1.5.4.32.19990722170432.006f5954@pop.pipeline.com)
At 12:13 PM 7/22/99 EDT, JEANELY@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 7/21/99 8:58:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>D.flandry@worldnet.att.net writes:
>
><< David Flandry:
> Bell:
> "As to babies/infants etc they are in the hands of God, and no, I don't say
> they need to reach the age of accountability before they are hell-deserving
> sinners."
>
> This is interesting. A couple of months ago Bell denied the infant
> damnation doctrine, after first implying it in an earlier post. Now he
> believes it again, based on this post. Sounds like he does not know
> what the hell he believes. >>
>
>Jean
>I suspect this is because Matt Bell is a fundamentally decent human being who
>would like to see some justice in his belief system. But since his belief
>system is of the Hell 'n Damnation sort, the result is confusion.
BRUCE:
Precisely! As per my earlier point that most "Christians" tend to live by
what we would consider "good moral standards" even though they may or may
not be unaware that such beliefs are contradictory to their own doctrines
(depending on which "interpretation" of those doctrines their particular
cult has seen fit to live by).