> Debbie wrote:
>> Speaking of kids ... I am glad they don't reduce
>> their relationship with me to obedience.
>
> I agree, Debbie, and I appreciate your analogy. It certainly is valid. The
> other side of this coin, however, is that if your children were disobedient,
> the law demands that they lose their relationship with you. The law says to
> take them to the elders to be stoned. Doesn't this mean that while
> relationship is not established upon obedience (something I think we all
> agree upon), obedience is an expected character trait that those who are in
> relationship with God and one another are expected to have? [DS] I think it means that when the law defines the relationship (which is what it is doing in the above scenario, despite your saying that "the relationship is not established upon obedience"), the result is a corpse under a pile of stones, and the end of the relationship.
>> Speaking of kids ... I am glad they don't reduce
>> their relationship with me to obedience.
>
> I agree, Debbie, and I appreciate your analogy. It certainly is valid. The
> other side of this coin, however, is that if your children were disobedient,
> the law demands that they lose their relationship with you. The law says to
> take them to the elders to be stoned. Doesn't this mean that while
> relationship is not established upon obedience (something I think we all
> agree upon), obedience is an expected character trait that those who are in
> relationship with God and one another are expected to have? [DS] I think it means that when the law defines the relationship (which is what it is doing in the above scenario, despite your saying that "the relationship is not established upon obedience"), the result is a corpse under a pile of stones, and the end of the relationship.
Of course, it might be
easy for me to say this, since none of my sons has pushed me to the brink
[yet]!
>
> Peace be with you.
> David Miller.
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