***Bad things happen in a fallen world.***
Part of our Judgement is how we deal with the fallen world. The Reformed do not appear to have such a burden.
***What sort of comic book theology is this?***
I’m sure that we have several dozen versions of it Sunday mornings on the TV.
***I could not care less what Protestants do if they will just stop letting their modernist “theology” so influence American foreign policy that it feels morally justified in partnering in the destruction of Eastern Christian communities and cultures. Why don’t you limit your attacks to the “so called American Protestants” and leave us Eastern Christians alone.***
It is unconscious. They simply don’t know. Part of the miracle of the Reformation was the ability to ignore most of Christianity.
***Should we have looked the other way. No, should we have as Christians gone to war? No, even if that meant dying. But we are human, fallen humans and until and unless we attain a state of perfect theosis, we will go to war and that’s sinful. But you don’t understand sin or for that matter even its consequences or why sin is of concern to Christians so you come up with a just war theory. Without it, your elect are sinners, aren’t they and that would never do.***
Something that I am (Augustinian influenced) guilty of as well. Something about the Crusaders with broadswords just kinda gets to me.
***You mean the scriptures The Church, that bunch of old Greek speaking bishops, put together for you? Those scriptures? What would I, a Christian who worships God the same way they did and believes the same things they did know about that.***
Christianity started, to most of these folks, from 50 to 100 years ago.
***How many Jews did your people hide in your village, UC? Can you name the partisans in your family who fought as irregulars against the Nazis? Can you recite the names of your cousins who were executed in reprisals by the Nazis? Do you know the names of your relatives killed by the godless communists? Silly, spoiled Amerikanaki!***
You are merely posing an academic question to folks who aren’t academic.
***Sin is sin, UC. It is always wrong. Saying otherwise makes one no better than the promoters of sodomite unions or jihad!***
Sin is not wrong if you are of the elect, doncha know? It is merely a step along the way to one’s salvation and if it affects that majority bound for hell, it is of no consequence.
“Sin is not wrong if you are of the elect, doncha know? It is merely a step along the way to one’s salvation and if it affects that majority bound for hell, it is of no consequence.”
Like all heretical teachings, this one is best known by its rotten fruit, an example of which is our recent foreign policy. It sure fits in well with Mohammedanism (another sort of heresy), though, doesn’t it!