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Subject: Not about the Resurrection
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Date: Thu, 9-Jun-83 21:25:04 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun  9 21:25:04 1983
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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
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