Re: THE PROBLEM WITH JESUS' FORGIVENESS...

DREAM ON!

"Antares 531" <gordonlrDELETE@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> The best explanation I've heard on this is that had God's creation not
> been complete, including evil as well as good, it would not have been
> perfect. God created it perfect, including both good and evil, and He
> is now in the process of separating good from evil. Once this process
> is complete, there will be a place where there is nothing other than
> good, and there will be a place where there is nothing that is good.
>
> Adam class humans wanted to understand good and evil, and God allowed
> them (us) to partake in this process of separating good from evil. It
> is our "op****tunity" to learn enough about good and evil to assure God
> we will never, ever want to go back and explore it again, once we've
> been granted immortality and absolute sovereignty.
>
> Anyway, this process may seem very long and drawn out from our
> tem****al perspective, but it is scarcely more than an instant from
> God's eternity tem****al perspective.
>
> Gordon
>
> On Mon, 5 May 2008 19:24:39 +0100, "Bill M" <wmech@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>
>>Why did God create sin??? Why not create a world where there is no evil
or
>>sin???
>>
>>"The_Sage" <The_Sage@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>>>
>>> To the man whom he had healed in the temple, Jesus instructed him to, 
>>> "Do
>>> not
>>> sin anymore" (John 5:14)
>>>
>>> To the woman who had been caught in the act of adultery, Jesus said
"sin
>>> no
>>> more" (John 8:11)
>>>
>>> Do you really honestly believe that the man in the temple went out and

>>> did
>>> not
>>> sin anymore? Was he perfect in everyway from then on or did he sin
again
>>> and
>>> have something even worse befall him as Jesus promised would happen if

>>> he
>>> did?
>>> Absolutely yes! Therefore Jesus was the worst thing that could have
>>> happened to
>>> that man.
>>>
>>> So Jesus forgave the woman but do you really think she also went out
and
>>> sinned
>>> no more as he commanded? Was she absolutely perfect from that point on

>>> as
>>> well?
>>> Of course not, so what do you think happened to her in the end? Again,
>>> Jesus was
>>> the worst thing that could have happened to that woman.
>>>
>>> How about you?
>>>
>>> The Sage
>>>
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>>>
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>>> based on] "inherently untrustworthy climate models, similar
>>> to those that cannot accurately forecast the weather a week
>>> from now" -- Dr. Richard Lindzen
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>>