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To: Alamo-Girl

Equality?

I think SCRIPTURE IS YET AGAIN

BOTH-AND.

Equality before The Cross. Certainly. Whosoever will may come etc.

But one sits on the right hand and one on the left and others elsewhere.

Some have greater treasures stored up in Heaven than others.

As my uncle Assembly of God pastor said about his son, my double cousin: Ronnie will probably make Heaven. But he won't have much to spend when he gets there.

Cloned critters, cloned cookie-cutter "Christians," robots . . . probably won't get tickets to Heaven--mostly because such don't exist in the spiritual existential sense I'm thinking of.


2,067 posted on 10/31/2006 2:08:27 PM PST by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
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To: Quix
Thank you so much for sharing your insights!

Whenever I've thought of equality, I've been compelled to Scriptures such as prodigal son and the parable of guys hired at different times of the day. From man's vantage point, the guy who worked 8 hrs in the hot sun should have earned more than the one who worked 1 hr in the cool dusk.

That is "equality" (or getting the same break as the next guy) from man's point of view.

But God loves justice, so each man was paid the same. The guy who worked the long day complained but the response was that he agreed to do the work for that amount - and he must not complain that the one who hired him was generous to the guy who worked only an hour under better conditions.

For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. - Romans 9:15

Or as Scriptures say elsewhere:

But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister: And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all. - Mark 10:43-44

I believe it was Billy Graham who remarked that he might be seated in the very back of the congregation while some quiet little grandmother might be seated in front. That rang true in my Spirit. It is all up to God. But we can be sure whatever it is, it is just. Praise God!

2,075 posted on 10/31/2006 10:47:57 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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