To: Cronos
Evil is rebellion against God. Evil is what has consumed our human nature after the fall of our first father, Adam.
The only antidote to that evil is the grace of God, given to whom He will according to His own good pleasure for His glory and the welfare of those He has called to Himself as family.
4,492 posted on
09/14/2010 12:11:06 AM PDT by
Dr. Eckleburg
(("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
To: Dr. Eckleburg
i.e., God has a blood feud against man.
4,493 posted on
09/14/2010 12:12:50 AM PDT by
D-fendr
(Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
To: Dr. Eckleburg
the grace of God, given to whom He will according to His own good pleasureAnd withheld from those he wishes to burn - for his own good pleasure.
A sadistic god.
4,494 posted on
09/14/2010 12:15:12 AM PDT by
D-fendr
(Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
To: Dr. Eckleburg
Evil is rebellion against God.
Yes, something we can agree on
Evil is what has consumed our human nature after the fall of our first father, Adam.
I dispute the word "consumed" -- the better term is "tainted", we still have a remnant of the purity that was our creation, we are not fully depraved
The only antidote to that evil is the grace of God, given to whom He will according to His own good pleasure for His glory and the welfare of those He has called to Himself as family.
Agreed -- yet, God freely gives His grace to ALL -- every single one of us. It depends on us to accept or not.
4,531 posted on
09/14/2010 2:07:24 AM PDT by
Cronos
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