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To: HiTech RedNeck

You can’t validly tar that association with one brush.


Yes. I firmly agree. It was more in jest to sort of backhandedly point the bony finger of blame at any local group, regardless of congregation, that fits the description, theology wise.

I have a serious problem with the “turn or burn” message, and not because people are “scared straight” by it. I don’t believe in scaring people straight. I don’t believe it’s how any of the apostles came to Christ. I believe it wss the GOOD news of His saving grace rather than the fate of those who do not follow Him.


59 posted on 05/05/2015 8:44:32 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: cuban leaf

There is a place to catch people’s attention to a train of thought by reminding them of shocking truths. But morphing into a spiritual bully in the interest of doing so is an abomination. Oddly enough that might still result in conversions, but it is as by seeking to hide in God from the strawman or the bully. There are deleterious knock on effects if the strawman or bully remains accepted as the dispositive preacher afterwards.

You might have noticed on my Freep page I have gone to great lengths to explain how a state of hell is a consequence of sinning. It isn’t something like a divine temper tantrum, like someone’s raging parent. It represents God respecting what we choose.


68 posted on 05/05/2015 9:08:06 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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