To: SoothingDave
Sigh.
Pick up a Bible and read it. I believe you can do that now.
When God's collective people are in faith, as a whole they prosper. When they sin, they are punished.
It's all through the OT. (that's the first 2/3rds)
272 posted on
06/08/2005 12:46:28 PM PDT by
Gamecock
(We don't beat "nice" people to a bloody pulp, nail them onto a cross and then watch them suffocate.)
To: Gamecock
Pick up a Bible and read it. I believe you can do that now. When God's collective people are in faith, as a whole they prosper. When they sin, they are punished. It's all through the OT. (that's the first 2/3rds) Yes, thank you for the illustration. We believe in something called "the New Covenant." God became Incarnate and suffered. The simplistic idea that good people get material, temporal rewards and bad people get material, temporal punishments is disproved by opening your eyes.
SD
To: Gamecock
When God's collective people are in faith, as a whole they prosper. When they sin, they are punished. Why would God reward people for having faith that he had pre-destined them to have? They did not choose to be faithful, so what's the point of rewarding them for it?
299 posted on
06/08/2005 1:01:20 PM PDT by
Modernman
("Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made." -Bismarck)
To: Gamecock
Your member name is the nickname of one of my ancestors.
Were he alive today I can just imagine what view he'd take of someone like you.
His daughter in law and grandchildren were all Catholics and he had a late life conversion.
358 posted on
06/08/2005 2:23:22 PM PDT by
Selkie
("There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent)
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