you know what was interesting...when I read this quote in akienm's journal, I thought the speaker was opining that there is no God/God loves no one. It took reading the article to get that the speaker believes otherwise.
Just wondering, do you think she wanted John 3:16 to read "For God so loved the good and righteous people...."no, wait, that doesn't make Christological sense. How about "For God so loved the Christians..."mmm, nope, no chronological sense. Okay, I give up. I'm with you and Jesus on this one.
Well, I think Phelps's theology would be a God of vengence, not a God of love. But I think what his daughter was actually saying was that God only loves Christians who pefectly follow His [sic] will. Never mind, of course, that the premise of Christianity is that humans are fallable/imperfect.
Well, it looks to me as though Phelps-Roper actually believes that God does not love anyone. That is not the same God I was brought up to know. Maybe they have a different god?
There was a notion among some folks who lived around the Medeterranian back a few millennia ago that local gods would 'steal' the worship of people who came to live in their territory by convincing those people that the local gods were really the gods those people knew from somewhere else. Of course, the local gods might really be inimical to some of the things that the people believed in, but as long as they could get the people to offer them sacrifices and prayer it made the local gods stronger, and they could then suborn the people even more.
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Just wondering, do you think she wanted John 3:16 to read "For God so loved the good and righteous people...."no, wait, that doesn't make Christological sense. How about "For God so loved the Christians..."mmm, nope, no chronological sense. Okay, I give up. I'm with you and Jesus on this one.
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Times like this I wish I believed in Hell so people like him could burn in it.
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where is the Greek concept of hubris?
:::looks under several mats:::
Am tired of self-appointed humans speaking for Gods, ya know?
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Quaint superstition? Maybe.