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To: HarleyD; stripes1776
He dwells on the good, love, beauty of God but fails to balance this with God's other attributes of justice, jealousy, and wrath

But God's love is seen as wrath and jealousy by people who hate Him. A minor detail OT authors failed to recognize at the time, just as Christ reminds us that "eye for an eye" (also in the Scripture, is not a correct response, nor something we should follow. How can Scripture be wrong? Christ says "eye for an eye" is not what we should follow.

The Old Testament says you should kill your enemy. Christ says you should love your enemies and those who persecute you. How can that be? The OT teaches nothing like that!

According to this work, there is no evil-not even among demons

God made all things good, according to Scripture. Demons were angels before they rebelled. Man was good until he rebelled. In both cases the free will rejected God and created evil.

Dionysius fails to recognized that man corrupted himself and is now considered, by God, to be evil

But, according to your theology, God was "guiding" him! Adam was good and alive when he was created and all his steps must have been guided by God, as He guides "the elect" today. But that implies that God guided Adam right into sin!

3,538 posted on 03/13/2006 4:10:17 PM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50
But God's love is seen as wrath and jealousy by people who hate Him.

Yes, I think that is best explanation I have seen.

3,540 posted on 03/13/2006 5:27:02 PM PST by stripes1776
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To: kosta50; HarleyD; stripes1776
But God's love is seen as wrath and jealousy by people who hate Him. A minor detail OT authors failed to recognize at the time, just as Christ reminds us that "eye for an eye" (also in the Scripture, is not a correct response, nor something we should follow. How can Scripture be wrong? Christ says "eye for an eye" is not what we should follow.

So some of the OT authors made mistakes? No wonder you have your opinion of the Bible. If there is even one mistake, how could you know what to trust? I suppose the Church will tell you what parts are OK and what parts are no good. You said that Christ says that "eye for an eye" is not what we should follow. Here is something else Christ said:

Matt. 5:17-18 : 17 "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.

3,663 posted on 03/17/2006 1:58:24 AM PST by Forest Keeper
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