Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site qubix.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!cca!decvax!decwrl!qubix!lab From: lab@qubix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Not about the Resurrection Message-ID: <309@qubix.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Jun-83 21:25:04 EDT Article-I.D.: qubix.309 Posted: Thu Jun 9 21:25:04 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jun-83 08:16:26 EDT Organization: Qubix Graphic Systems, Saratoga, CA Lines: 29 Notice 1: there has been a noticeable silence recently in net.religion - I am assuming we are not getting all the articles, so bear with me (or send me mail) if you want my answer on a certain point. (I have posted a separate article dealing with the resurrection challenge) Ken Arnold "So if any reasonable creator looks over my life, S/He couldn't have any complaints I would recognize as valid." Validity matters only in the eye of the final Judge - you won't have much of a say. csu-cs!morganr: "a Christian will never admit that he is a cowering slave." Slave, yes; cowering, hardly! I am still waiting for replies to my mail to you - did you not receive them, or did they get a little close to home? Tim Maroney: "Don' yo be sayin' t'ings like dat! De Massa gwine be pow'ful angry! We'se just' slaves, and dat's all we ever be." The "Massa" has adopted me as His son. I don't serve Him out of terror; the only terror Paul mentions is the Judgment of God on the unbelievers. I serve Him out of love, as One who rescued (= saved) me from what I was going to get. The concept of a love-slave seems to be foreign to you. Even in the days of the patriarchs, a slave had the option at the Sabbatical Year - when he HAD to be given his freedom - of choosing to stay with a master he loved. Under the Hebrew law, that was a decision for life. In other cultures, the length of service is not mandated - the service truly is of love and gratitude. And so is mine. Free in and because of the Lord, Larry Bickford {decvax,ucbvax}!decwrl!qubix!lab