I was shocked when a Christian who was sure of Calvinism questioned the existence of a literal hell, because how could a righteous God punish for eternity. How can one stand for such items so surely and reject others. Calvinism’s five points has fewer Biblical passages supporting it than the existence of hell.

It is because that this belief system never fully addresses certain passages I am suspicious of it.  No Christian theology is perfect and there are many debatable issues; the existence of hell is not one of them. I heard a marvelous correlation on the radio this week in regard to the virgin birth. To be saved one does not have to know of the virgin birth, it is not essential to acceptance, but to reject it upon knowing of it is to reject the perfection of Jesus and therefor reject the Jesus we know and the salvation we share. 

Legalism and judgement has always been an issue but far more prevalent in the US today is the moral equivalency and relativity even within the church. This is the reason so many claim to be Christians and are sadly ignorant and misled, many not even knowing the Jesus they think they do.

I saw a stopry the other day titled NRA goes dark. It got me to thinking about all the good sites here on xanga and the people around. Not that all good men are silent but the roar of the crowd tries to drown them out and many lights do go dark. I believe this is why Jesus said let your light shine before men that they may see your good deeds and glorify your father in heaven.

I was having a discussion with a liberal at work today. My ultimate purpose is to bring him to salvation but as is often the case we were discussing the governments nanny state role in our lives.  This is important because government is  god to many people it grants them power as priests over the teaming masses of ignorant plebians. We were discussing the laws on softdrink sizes. And I made the comment that basically the government is telling people they are too stupid to take care of themselves and unable to take personal responsibility his response was essentially ” that is insensitive  we would never tell anyone that”

At dictionary. com it is defined among other things as strict adherence to the fundamental principles or beliefs. While this can be a negative thing and refer to legalists, usually it is used by the world to define true Christians. It is used by people who do not see the difference between true believers and groups such as the JW who by their own so called christian statement of faith deny the Trinity.

Our problem as Christians if it ever was legalism has swayed greatly to tolerance of wickedness in our churches and in our lives. It is because of our lack of purity that our prayers our hindered and our culture decays. This is not a purity based on works such as in the Law of the sabbath, a shadow of God’s rest for His people, but a purity of love empowered by the Holy Spirit.

I was listening to the ACLJ on the radio today and heard that Some nations were trying to take control of the internet away from the people in the US who have overseen, and done a fair job for years.  Now while these private enterprizes may not be the best but the international community including many totalitarian regimes is historically far less trustworthy than our own people in maintaining freedom.

Typical intolerance- We were putting up Christmas decorations at the office today and someone told me we could not hang put up a decoration that said Merry Christmas. It seems like there is an atheist somewhere in our office and this is an EO violation. So the actions of the many are dictated by the religion of the one.

If you look at this correctly the government is interfering in religion because Christmas is a religious holiday and we celebrate it. I have never heard any one complain about the offensiveness of halloween, which is also has at heart a religious, albeit evil origin.