As a regular Bible-toting Christian and rafter-eyed sinner, I would like to throw my penny in the pond.
I don't think one Christian will tell you it's OK to sin. But for too long people have been preaching fire and brimstone to Christians and non-Christians alike. There is a whole movement within Christianity for this to stop, since it was done mostly out of ignorance and fear.
The whole idea of "gospel" is that Jesus came for the sinner and not the righteous. He said so himself. Through Him God introduced mercy into the justice system. The idea is that eventually everybody will be judged under the law of love, but there is nothing to fear except God himself - the judge who knows the heart.
Nobody blames space for being a vacuum. If you go space-walking without a suit and your eyeballs get sucked out, it's not unfair - it's how it is. It's an unchanging physical law. Why is the idea of an unchanging metaphysical law so objectionable?
But nobody thinks of Justice as a reality. Humanity has gotten so used to living with injustice that the idea seems prepostorous - even while we're trying to perfect it for our own sake. We have even had to extend the concept further, to include the ecosystem and increasingly less-evident details, in order to protect our very existence. Since time began, justice has been the grease of society. Why was this necessary at all? Because of a lack of love and everything that goes with it - respect, honesty, unselfishness, etc.
Nobody has to go to hell. But since we live in a nicely protected atmosphere (at least until the ozone layer is depleted, or the forests destroyed), we can't see why anybody would want to wear space-suits. Or build an ark. Or believe in God.
I don't think one Christian will tell you it's OK to sin. But for too long people have been preaching fire and brimstone to Christians and non-Christians alike. There is a whole movement within Christianity for this to stop, since it was done mostly out of ignorance and fear.
The whole idea of "gospel" is that Jesus came for the sinner and not the righteous. He said so himself. Through Him God introduced mercy into the justice system. The idea is that eventually everybody will be judged under the law of love, but there is nothing to fear except God himself - the judge who knows the heart.
Nobody blames space for being a vacuum. If you go space-walking without a suit and your eyeballs get sucked out, it's not unfair - it's how it is. It's an unchanging physical law. Why is the idea of an unchanging metaphysical law so objectionable?
But nobody thinks of Justice as a reality. Humanity has gotten so used to living with injustice that the idea seems prepostorous - even while we're trying to perfect it for our own sake. We have even had to extend the concept further, to include the ecosystem and increasingly less-evident details, in order to protect our very existence. Since time began, justice has been the grease of society. Why was this necessary at all? Because of a lack of love and everything that goes with it - respect, honesty, unselfishness, etc.
Nobody has to go to hell. But since we live in a nicely protected atmosphere (at least until the ozone layer is depleted, or the forests destroyed), we can't see why anybody would want to wear space-suits. Or build an ark. Or believe in God.
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