stfassisi wrote:
“Your post is very similar to Jonathan Edwards ‘Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.’”
Could be. I never read him. But I think I will take that as a compliment.
stfassis also wrote:
“In any event, Catholic’s don’t believe in a dualistic God-We understand that God does not change and the love crushes sin,not anger.”
Dualistic? Hardly. You, stfassisi, are now standing in the temple with the Pharisee and the tax collector ... and, from your answer, you are inclined to go the way of the Pharisee. It leads to where you do not want to go.
Dualistic? That is a near blasphemous adjective. You need to meditate on the very thing the apostle admonished Timothy to do as he trained the pastors of the third generation of the ambassadors of Christ: “This is a faithful saying: For if we died with Him, we shall also live with Him. If we endure, we shall also reign with Him. If we deny Him, He also will deny us. If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself. Remind them of these things, charging them before the Lord not TO STRIVE ABOUT WORDS TO NO PROFIT, TO THE RUIN OF THE HEARERS. Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, RIGHTLY DIVIDING THE WORD OF TRUTH. But shun profane and idle babblings, for they will increase to more ungodliness. And their message will spread like cancer.” (2 Timothy 2:11-17)
Rightly dividing the word means dividing it, distinguishing it into Law and Gospel, Demand and Promise. Stfassisi, you will never ever fulfill what God demands, only One has done that, and what He has accomplished is offered to you freely. Beware that you do not call the Holy Spirit a liar in this.
stfassisi also wrote:
“The Bible literalest can never reconcile.”
No. We leave reconciling to our God: “God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.” (2 Corinthians 5:19)
SOLI DEO GLORIA
Your post is babble and accusations written in a condescending nature.
It amazes me that you did not figure out when I spoke of Love crushing sin that God is Love and does not change from Love or God would be changed
“For thou lovest all things that are, and hatest none of the things which thou hast made: for thou didst not appoint, or make any thing hating it.”- Wisdom 11:25
“For I am the Lord, and I change not”-Malachi 3:6
I’m really not interested in going round and round with this with you.