At 11:25 AM -0500 2/28/01, Stephen Black wrote:
>On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Jim Guinee wrote:
>>
>> Admittedly, a very unpleasant aspect of biblical Christianity is the
>>belief that
>> non-Christians go to a very bad place. This should never be taken
>>lightly by
>> the church, and is cause for much suffering and grieving. I don't like
>> professing this belief one bit, but I don't see that professing it would
>>make
>> me judge and jury of the rest of my fellow earthlings.
>
>Admittedly not a topic for TIPS, but fascinating to me, to have
>Jim confirm this view so bluntly. Would not a God who would
>condemn billions of otherwise blameless people to "a very bad
>place" solely for not believing appropriately be an evil, cruel
>and malicious entity? How can this be consistent with a belief in
>a just, kind, and caring God?
Tsk!
Applying logic to belief.
The ways of the Almighty are by definition unknowable by us poor humans.
If we believe that Whatever (to be inclusive) is good and just, than it is.
Most religious writing can be interpreted as the attempt to justify the
unjustifiable.
But of course, that's what separates science from religioun
(see'Creationsism').
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