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To: Thatcherite
Why is rejection of God's pardon of our sin a sin? What is sinful about that?

Why do we need pardon for behavior which is an unavoidable part of our nature?

Adam was our forefather who had dominion over the entire earth. He forfeited that dominion and brought on the curse when he chose to disobey the Creator's direct commandment. Basically God said this is all yours, no sweat, if you do not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. After the fall life became the grind that we recognize as the rat-race we live with today. Continually having to overcome the natural way things become disorganized.

God created mankind to rule the earth for Him. In our fallen state we relinquished the potential He had designed into us. By rejecting the pardon, we can no longer have fellowship with God because evil is not in God's character.

Being a loving Creator He has provided a remedy that costs nothing for us. With physical death we are either ushered into His loving presence to recapture our original inheritance, or we are placed in a place where none of His goodness will reach. No more breezes to cool us down. No more sunsets to inspire the feelings of personal value for life. No more love and camaraderie. All of these things are outcomes of His love for us, and the reason we have no excuse for rejecting Him.

230 posted on 02/17/2005 9:16:52 PM PST by bondserv (Sincerity with God is the most powerful instigator for change! † [Check out my profile page])
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To: bondserv
He forfeited that dominion and brought on the curse when he chose to disobey the Creator's direct commandment.

Before Adam ate of the tree he had no knowledge of good and evil. How then could it be evil of him to eat the tree?

By rejecting the pardon, we can no longer have fellowship with God because evil is not in God's character.

Why do we require a pardon for behavior we cannot avoid? You dance around this question and never answer it. I am beginning to suspect that you don't have an answer.

Being a loving Creator He has provided a remedy that costs nothing for us.

It is simply not true to aver that Christianity is a cost-free option. In any case, the cost is not really relevant unless you are proposing Pascal's Wager, which fails on a number of logical counts as far as I am concerned.

...or we are placed in a place where none of His goodness will reach. No more breezes to cool us down. No more sunsets to inspire the feelings of personal value for life. No more love and camaraderie. All of these things are outcomes of His love for us...

How is denial of these things an outcome of His love for us?

and the reason we have no excuse for rejecting Him.

Why do we need an excuse for rejecting Him? The use of the word "excuse" implies that to reject God is evil, but you have not yet established that fact.

231 posted on 02/18/2005 1:16:19 AM PST by Thatcherite (Conservative and Biblical Literalist are not synonymous)
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To: bondserv
You dance around this question and never answer it. I am beginning to suspect that you don't have an answer.

That was unfair of me because I can see that you are trying. I am sure that you feel that you have an answer, but for whatever reason you are failing to communicate that answer to me.

232 posted on 02/18/2005 2:00:06 AM PST by Thatcherite (Conservative and Biblical Literalist are not synonymous)
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