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To: Kolokotronis
Well, if you insist on being anthropomorphic about it, yes, He is indifferent.

God is indifferent to sin? If so, then from what do we need saving and why did He bother to send His Son?

God is "just"? By whose standards? You don't know God's standards, none of use do and clearly God is not "just" at all by man's standards."

Well, by God's standards of course, by definition. We are given a million clues in the Bible as to what God's justice is, and all I know is that I don't want it.

Your definition creates a God to be saved "from" not "by"...

That's the whole point of my belief in grace. That's what makes all the difference.

87 posted on 01/02/2006 3:26:19 PM PST by Forest Keeper
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To: Forest Keeper; Kolokotronis
Kolokotronis: Your definition creates a God to be saved "from" not "by"...

Forest Keeper: That's the whole point of my belief in grace. That's what makes all the difference

So, you believe in God out of fear, not love? Why am I not surprized.

89 posted on 01/02/2006 3:38:33 PM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: Forest Keeper; kosta50

"If so, then from what do we need saving...."

From the power of death over us.

"...and why did He bother to send His Son?""

To destroy the power of death over man, of course. "God became man so that men might become gods", in other words, so that we might attain theosis which is our created purpose.


95 posted on 01/02/2006 3:50:25 PM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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