[jodyel]

As I have said, Thomas, humans are capable of great things because we have been made in His image. Compassion is one of God’s great attributes and we are wise to emulate it.

However, the heart capable of great compassion is also capable of sin. This is a condition of our fallen state and nothing except the blood of Jesus can cover it and wash it away.

So everyone needs a Savior, even these lovely people in these commercial ads. This is the point that can never be yielded by a believer in Jesus.

Enjoy these ads for what they are, but never forget who Jesus is and what He does for all of us.

God bless you always, Thomas.
jodyel

[Mrs. Don-o]

Jody, Tom:

I do have a sincere question, which I pose not to spark the typical FR fracas, but just for your (may I say short-ish) reflections.

John 1:9 calls Christ "the true Light which enlightens every man who comes into the world." (Here are five parallel translations so you can see if I got the true gist of it.)

I take that to mean that every person, in some way not fully explained, comes into contact with Christ the Light; and that therefore,

• every person has this choice: to love the Light as he sees it, or to reject the Light, and so
• you don't have billions of people damned to hell just because they happened to be born in what is now Lithuania in 100 A.D., or died illiterate in Bangkok last month, or was mowed down in a war in Mesopotamia in 800 BC), because
• every person (emphatically including these decent and loving Buddhists) has an equal chance to, so to speak, "friend" or "unfriend" the Light: believe in Him or not believe; and thus be saved by Him who wills that every man be saved and come into a knowledge of the Truth.(1 Tim 2:4 happened to be in the reading at Mass this morning).

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What do you think?