From: RFaussette@aol.com
Date: Wed Jul 16 2003 - 13:22:11 EDT
In a message dated 7/16/03 11:45:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
sbrasile@hotmail.com writes:
> You said "So the question remains as to whether any act done by a truly
> sanctified Christian truly motivated by agape is in itself wrong. We're
> talking about _in principle_ here, rather than in practice, because in
> practice anything and everything can be sinful."
>
How can a TRULY sanctified Christian TRULY motivated by agape sin? Isn't that
a contradiction in terms? I am either doing the will of the Father or I am
not doing the will of the Father. The question is - have I properly discerned
the will of the Father? and if I have not, is that my fault or the fault of
Christianity?
> We would have to then include Christian parents who beat their children to
> death or half to death trying to "discipline" them. Parents who are fanatics
> often believe they will "save" their children's souls from eternal damnation
> if they can "make" them behave or even kill them before the age of
> accountability. Believing they are sparing them, they do "love" them with
> agape love, but also commit murder or severely abuse them, willing to take
> whatever punishment comes upon themselves, in a physical (in this life) or
> the spiritual (in the next) sense, "sacrificing" their own lives (or
> eternities) for the eternity of their children.
>
>
These Christian parents are ignorant if they do indeed come close to
murdering their children in the pursuit of discipline. Christianity does not
necessarily proffer wisdom. It is a belief system that many fail to live up to or at
times as in the case you mention even understand. The religion itself and the
behavior of individuals who claim to be working in the name of the religion are
two different animals.
rich faussette
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