Re: Doing a great ministry.
Submitted by Samiel on November 13 2001 17:43:14
In reply to Re: Doing a great ministry. submitted by Heather on November 13 2001 16:19:27
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Thank you for your response... I appreciate very much, as I'm sure everyone does, the fact that you are doing something like this. As far as the free will and the "War" thing.. I don't really know why I brought it up, because I didn't really expect any good reply to it..Exept I have been struggling with it for so long I always hope that someone will have guidance, or proof against it.. You mentioned that me using the word "War" was a representation of me believing that we do have free will..Well this is to to a degree. The amount I believe it is about 2% or somewhere in that area...And I wanted everyone to know that I am open to suggestion. I keep a VERY open-mind, even though I do have STRONG beliefs. This is the way I have learned, from being a BL and other circomstances, is aproppriate to act for the purpose of expanding my knowledge of the world around me. So yes I am open to the possibility of us having "free will", but only 2% open...Not that it can't go up to 5 or 20 or 40 % or more depending on additionnal information that I may recieve from somebody. You ask if I would hold myself accountable if I were to "lose control" of myself and do somthing to a boy...Well this signifies that you think my mentioning free will was because I choose to use this to exempt myself from sin...As far as myself, I can believe in the possibility of free will but not to 100%, not yet anyway, and I know myself quite well and I couldn't possibly ever see myself doing anything to harm a child. Nor would I ever commit the sin that I believe it to be(if God Exists). I say IF God exists and I'm sure you wonder what my percentage is on that. It would be in the 90-99% range. Even though the scale is tipped higher on that one, it is still bad not being entirely sure. I guess I havn't answered your question yet. Would I hold myself responsible? I would hold myself at the 0.01% chance possibility of being responsible. Please remember that I don't have to worry about myself, I intend on following God and doing right for all my life. I mention free will because I have a heart-wrinching burdon for ALL of the people on this horrid planet. When looking at other people, I absolutely(99.9%) do not believe that they are responsible for their actions. Take the greatest example I can think of, and I use this often when discussing this topic. People sometimes get the impression that I myself have the desire to mass-murder, this is not true, I simply think it best describes my forgiving nature. Somebody could come in my house right now, torture my family by way of blow-torch and knives, starting at the toes and working towards the head. Taking even a week or even a month if possible to finaly finish the agony. Then they could turn and do the same to me. I wouldn't send them to Hell if I had the power. This is also an outside subject, even if I find out we have free will... Because Hell is eternal, so I can't understand it at all. If I wouldn't send anybody to hell for eternity, then that means I'm more merciful than God. How is it possible for me to be more merciful than God? I can understand punishment being necessary, but using the words of another post, this lifetime is a nanosecond, so torturing a single person for a week or a million people for a decade...Is nothing cmpared to eternity in Hell.. I would only be able to handle it if I was told Hell at some point ended... Don't think, BTW, that I just started this belief when I read that post. I have had that thought in my head for years as well. I was just using his word "nanosecond" instead of microsecond, which is what I usually say. I found naosecond to be more fitting though. :) Thank you for any opinions or advice you may give, and for this WONDERFUL Board :) |
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