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Sent: April 07, 2005 20:27
Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Narrow way not "
loving"?
David writes > Careful,
Bill. I know too many people who would take this as an
incitement toward following in Paul Hill's steps.
I get your point, David. But if my statement were
to incite anyone to the use of violence, I will have been terribly
misunderstood. I think there are better ways of
"doing" righteousness than talking tough and sounding righteous -- that is my
only point; for example, if my boys were "wicked," and if the law called for
it, rather than take them to be stoned, I should volunteer to take their
stoning myself -- you know, vicariously. History tells us that that is God's
way of dealing with wicked children (you know, in the New Testament).
Moreover, it seems to me if you're going to call parents wicked for not
sending their wicked children to hell, then God is just as wicked for not
sending you to hell, and me to hell, and every one of us to hell. Instead, he
went to hell himself, that we would not have to. With Christ as our example,
it seems to me that there is something, well, just plain sick about a guy who
wants to demonstrate his own "righteousness" by sending his "wicked"
children to hell -- because, well, because true righteousness would
go in their place.
Bill
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 2:24
PM
Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Narrow way not "
loving"?
> Bill wrote:
> > It seems to me that "Christians" want to
talk tough and
> > sound righteous -- but do nothing, and this so the
blood
> > will be on their Lord's hands.
>
> Careful,
Bill. I know too many people who would take this as an incitement
> toward following in Paul Hill's steps. I believe that spiritual
warfare is
> not "doing nothing." I believe that preaching the
Word of God is a powerful
> force. Unfortunately, Paul Hill
traded in his Bible and preaching for a
> shotgun. There are
others I know who would do it too once they become
> willing to pay the
ultimate price of giving up their life. I think we would
> do
better to affirm the value and power of preaching God's Word than
>
denigrating it to the status of "doing nothing."
>
> Peace be
with you.
> David Miller.
>
>
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