From: gordon brown (gbrown@euclid.colorado.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 03 2003 - 17:40:39 EDT
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, John W Burgeson wrote:
> OK. Paul is referring specifically to persons who are "wicked" and
> "suppress the truth." Now the friends of mine I referred to in earlier
> posts do not appear to fit this description. In that "all persons sin," a
> good Presbyterian tenet, of course they do. But their lifestyles are,
> except for their domestic living arrangements, indistinguishable from you
> or I or the typical Christian. All are church members, two are studying
> for the ministry, one has completed his education and is an ordained
> minister in a fellowship which has welcomed him and his partner. His
> sermons (I have heard him three times) are faithful to the gospel.
> Knowing such persons -- worshipping with them -- dining and
> fellowshipping in their homes, I am quite unable to identify Romans 1:8
> as a description of them.
I know very spiritual people who do something that I think the Bible says
is wrong. Should I therefore conclude that what they do is right? I don't
believe that what spiritual people do is a valid criterion for deciding
what is right. Think about some of the things that the great saints in the
Bible did.
Gordon Brown
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0395
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