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- From: judi@wam.umd.edu (Jay T Stein -- with something missing)
- Subject: Re: Something's Missing!?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.124211.10275@wam.umd.edu>
- Originator: judi@rac1.wam.umd.edu
- Sender: Jay for himself
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- Organization: WACDTF, Washington, D.C.
- References: <1993Jan20.003024.29601@ncsu.edu> <1993Jan20.112917.14151@wam.umd.edu> <1993Jan21.203028.15399@ncsu.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 12:42:11 GMT
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- What: <1993Jan21.203028.15399@ncsu.edu>
- Who: jjprice@eos.ncsu.edu (JEFFREY JAMES PRICE)
-
- >> = Jay T Stein -- now with home login
- >|>> = jjprice@eos.ncsu.edu (JEFFREY JAMES PRICE)
- --------------------------------------------------------------
- [... bandwidthectomy ...]
-
- >|>>Before anyone flames this....remember God is forgiving if you just ask for
- >|>>forgiveness....Just because someone made a mistake is no reason to condemn
- >|>>then. This guy has the right idea but is expressing it entirely wrong...
- >|>>He is using the fire/brimstone/watch out approach that is wrong.
- >|>>You need to realize that God is forgiving and loving......
- >|>
- >|>Your approach doesn't sit any easier, I'm afraid. Why should I ask for
- >|>forgiveness for something I feel isn't wrong? Seems to me that you are
- >|>also using the "fire/brimstone/watch out" approach. If God is so forgiving,
- >|>God will understand my reasons for the choices I make in life. If I
- >|>am to be damned anyway, I dispute that God is really so "forgiving."
- >
- >Of course he will understand the choices you made. You may believe that
- >they are right but if in fact they are wrong it does not change the fact that
- >you sined even if you felt that you were in the right.
-
- Of course, if I am *not* wrong then no amount of fire-and-brimstone scare
- speeches from you will change that.
-
- >I could go out
- >and shoot someone and feel that I was perfectly right to do so that does
- >not make it right.
-
- No kidding. Today's Statement Of The Obvious (tm) is brought to you by
- Nuprin. The headache people.
-
- >If you do something wrong and refuse to admit it or
- >you do something wrong and refuse to admit its wrong they are the same thing
- >its up to God to decide what is wrong.
-
- IF God exists as you depict, which I dispute, and that is the point I was
- making.
-
- >He was saying just think about where you will end up before you do it. I am
- >saying that even if you have goofed you can always admit you're wrong and
- >seek forgiveness but if you don't think your wrong you won't seek it will
- >you.
-
- Right. And I will also become annoyed at you and anyone else who attempts
- to proselytize.
-
- >The fact is you can't be damned anyway because God will forgive you if
- >you ask.
-
- IF God exists as you depict.
- --
- _____ __ __ -=* Jay T Stein *=-
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- But still I fear and still I dare not laugh at the madman.
-