[jude24]

Its funny you post a simple gospel message and a lot of people just come unglued. Rather than look to the power of the gospel message itself, they look for heresies in every word nit picking every jot and tittle looking for something that they can point to as a hidden theological error and then miss the glorious picture that surrounds them.

My experience is that these sorts of objections always turn out this way.

I remember vehemently objecting to a praise/worship chorus we sang at Crusade, which contained the phrase, "My heart and flesh cry out for You, the Living God." That, I argued, flew in the face of "in my flesh there dwelleth no good thing" (Rom. 7:18). However... that phrase is almost an exact quote from Ps. 84:2. Oops....

What happened was my systematic theology had taken the place of Scripture in my mind. I believed, and still believe, in Total Depravity, so to suggest that the flesh (which I inadvertantly equated with the sinful nature -- and I'm certainly not alone) could desire God was unthinkable to me. Yet Scripture did so, and I got caught with my theological pants down.

As an aside, what can you tell me about Oklahoma's and Florida State's law schools?

[Corin Stormhands]

What happened was my systematic theology had taken the place of Scripture in my mind. I believed, and still believe, in Total Depravity, so to suggest that the flesh (which I inadvertantly equated with the sinful nature -- and I'm certainly not alone) could desire God was unthinkable to me.

I believe that the flesh of every man, even in his sinful state cries out for God. But until we come into a relationship with Him, we do not understand What, or Who, we need.

"Man's chief and highest end is to glorify God, and fully to enjoy him forever." I believe that need to glorify God and enjoy him forever is within every man.