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To: blu
"God hasn't forgiven the gunman, why should the Amish? (If I can presume to divine God's will here.)

Well, you should have stopped there. That was the brick wall of your argument."

Well then, if we can never presume what God wants, how can we know what to do? Sure, He has laid out some pretty simple guidelines, but even with those guidelines we have to make some interpretations. Surely you can see that there are differences in the way Christians interpret God's will. That why there are different denominations.

We are *required* by God to divine His will. He doesn't tell us how to carry out our day to day affairs. That would be ridiculous, right? We need to figure out how to act in accordance with His will.

I mean that's pretty simple. I get the impression from your comment that you disagree with me so, therefore, you are calling me stupid for trying to figure out how God would judge certain actions... I guess that also means we can't judge certain actions as "good" in God's eyes either, right?

69 posted on 10/07/2006 4:42:33 PM PDT by bolobaby
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To: bolobaby
[This is what I believe. Your opinion may vary] I would not presume to know how God's gonna handle this guy. God makes the rules and interprets them, as he sees fit. We try to be Christ-like, but that doesn't give us the right to make the ultimate judgment calls.

I am not calling you stupid. I'm sorry you felt that I was (oh, and sorry for the clintonista apology!LOL!)

Forgiveness says more about the forgiver than the forgivee.
75 posted on 10/07/2006 5:15:26 PM PDT by blu (People, for God's sake, think for yourselves)
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