Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-h Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:aeq From: aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: The end of it Message-ID: <1644@pucc-h> Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 11:13:52 EST Article-I.D.: pucc-h.1644 Posted: Tue Jan 8 11:13:52 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jan-85 04:32:55 EST References: <127@decwrl.UUCP> <1839@sun.uucp> <1554@pucc-h> <1881@sun.uucp> <1590@pucc-h> <52@rti-sel.UUCP> Organization: 1-800-GO-NORAD Lines: 41 From Dave Martindale (watcgl!dmmartindale): > you seem to be saying that you are > not a good Christian because you are unable to love your enemies, and > because of that God/Christ will not like your or approve of you (even > though He accepts you), and thus you don't "deserve" any liking or > approval from ordinary humans, and thus won't receive any. Actually, what I think I was trying to imply was that if God doesn't like me, who will or can? (The way it really works, as I know but don't really entirely believe, is that if I don't like me, who can?) > Human being simply *are* more tolerant than you give them credit for. > They are quite capable and willing to love someone *even if they aren't > perfect*. More precisely, there are certainly people out in the world > who will not write you off simply because you don't love your enemies. Perhaps my own intolerance is showing.... I get quite annoyed with people like myself with lots of needs, imperfections, incompletenesses. Sometimes I work at caring for them anyway, but I am not always or even often pleased about it (though they seem to be; my acting skills carry me through again!). And there are certainly people whom I know who do not write me off; some of them don't know me all that well, though; they might have a tough time understanding or accepting me if they did, since they seem to be the sort who are nice, undamaged people who have never had struggles like mine. > Now, I really don't know whether your God is more severe and > judgemental than this and thus really won't like/approve of you because > you don't meet His standards, so I don't know if your error is in > taking God to be more critical than He is or in assuming that people > will be just as severe, but one of these assumptions is wrong. Everyone tells me that my error is the first of the two, but I have yet to see that convincingly proved from Scripture -- in the face of verses like "The dead were judged according to what they had done" (Revelation 20:12), not to mention I Corinthians 3:10-15. -- -- Jeff Sargent {decvax|harpo|ihnp4|inuxc|ucbvax}!pur-ee!pucc-h:aeq Proud owner of two Control Data doorstops.