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To: imardmd1
Do you want someone coming up to you and in your face yelling “You’re going to Hell without Jesus” which is basically what those people are doing.

I just HATE when that happens!!

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.

John 3:18

134 posted on 07/24/2014 5:07:45 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
I just HATE when that happens!!

So do I, especially when the insensitive religionist scoffers also ignore the basic etiquette of communication.

But the "in-your-face" spiritual waterboarding of children is most definitely not the CEF style, as the previous mocker you quoted falsely maintains.

The CEF mode is to couch the gospel in such simple language and illustrations, within a child's vocabulary, and tenderly offered, that the Biblical truths cannot be denied by child or adult.

Regarding your Scripture quotation (and the translation of krino in the perfect tense is excellent), its following context amplifies the issue being discussed:

"And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil" (Jn 3:19 AV).

It is precisely those who are under condemnation and who love the darkness--who don't wish their children's spirits to be illuminated nor their evil deeds exposed--that object to the CEF approach, even though it is done with considerate methodology subject to obtaining parental consent.

(BTW, font-blasting is not exactly a polite way to present one's theology, as it belongs in the same category as other "in-your-face" tactics.)

144 posted on 07/24/2014 7:24:55 AM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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