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 3/26/07 8:36 PM |
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Rev Hamilton, while I agree with most of what you have to say about forgiveness and repentance, it begs another question: If Gerry Adams has not demonstrated repentance for his campaign of terror, then why sit down at the table with him without that being a precondition?For the record, I did not intend to imply that my country was not without guilt in providing funds and arms for the IRA. On the contrary, we have done so for many of the world's conflicts for much of our history. As far as a moral decline in America, it started well before it was constituted as a nation. Have you forgotten about the immoral and brutal practice of American Slavery, the systematic annihilation of Native Americans, the period of our nation referred to as the Roaring Twenties? Keep looking for a quote "Christian America" that never really existed; you'll never find it. Just like all the other nations of this world the United States is ripe for judgement. The one thing that gives the Christian hope is the promise from scripture that the Kingdom of Heaven is not anything like that which is to be found at any time in this world's Christ rejecting existence. |
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| 3/26/07 5:55 PM |
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Boy is the Hezekiah reference so out of place here. Hezekiah was being rebuked because of pride. I don't think that is the case here with Dr. P.
Yes, the IRA is responsible for the deaths of many people, but I don't in any way believe the Protestants are any less guiltless or should I dare say sinless as well. Again, how many atrocities did my own country commit during the Vietnam War or, conversely, how many Americans did the Viet Cong kill? Notice I said attrocities. I am making a distinction between soldiers "killing" on behalf of its nation or cause and those who go outside the "accepted" behavior of warfare. Ruc officer, are you advocating that the status quo continue? In all deference to the dead on both sides, it's time to use this as an opportunity to move forward. Incidentally, if anyone cannot find forgiveness in their heart, then they really need to pray that God might grant it to them. Christ forgave us for a lot more. Take heart that the nations of the world are temporal, that means that they are passing away. Men will always seek peace, but they are seeking the wrong peace. |
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| 3/25/07 8:03 PM |
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Anna, all you have stated would be correct were it not for the enternal electing purposes of God. God's salvation plan cannot be frustrated by man, particularly because the "making" of every true Christian" or child of God is a work which He and He alone performs. So forget about demographics which really tell you nothing relative to God's eternal salvation plan, which was in view even before the world was.  |
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| 3/18/07 9:09 AM |
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Jim, if we were to use your line of reasoning, then you, too, are excluded from being the recepient of God's grace. Sure there are degrees of sin. However, all sin is pretty much willful disobedience of God's law. Even one is enough to keep you out of heaven. Not only that, there are many men who from the testimony of scripture did many wicked things of the level that Dahmer did, i.e. King Manassah, and yet were wonderously saved. God, alone, truly knows what happened to Dahmer, but let's not rule out altogether that God could not have used him to show his grace toward even the vilest of sinners. |
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