Subj : Rush to Judgement?
To   : RALPH ZETTER
From : TODD HENSON
Date : Thu Nov 02 2000 12:53 am

> I took the liberty of taking you up on your challenge to inspect the
> Matzdobre echo for your 
> quality and quantity of messages. I saw only a small number of messages
> from you. You were 
> taunting Chuck. I wasn't including you in the pig category.


I wasn't so much taunting him for jollies as I was trying to get him so see
a few things.


> > That's not an entirely well-formed view. I appreciate certain aspects of
> > Buddhism, just as I 
> > appreciate various aspects of many religions. But there are certain core
> > truths that are not 
> > negotiable. But the writings of Paul in the NT keep following me around
> > lately, where he wrote 
> > that even though the gentiles did not have the benefit of receiving God's
> > Law in as detailed a 
> > manner as the Hebrews did, they still could obey the law of God that was
> > written in their hearts 
> > and become a law unto themselves. The soul of man is attracted to the idea
> > of meaning in life 
> > that transcends the physical, and all men have an intuitive knowledge of
> > such truths, truths 
> > which point to God.
> 
> 
> Hmmmmm. I haven't heard the Bible explained like that. But then again, I
> don't consider myself 
> to be extremely well read with the Bible. 


Those particular verses are in Romans chapter 2. There's quite a lot good
ideology
in the Bible if people take the time to study without all the anti-God
biases.


> > So, while I might sau that Buddha was wrong in his ideas of reincarnation,
> > the gods, etc, I can 
> > still see the value in his teachings of the "right path", which were
> > motivated by the attraction of 
> > his soul toward God, given the amount of truth that he DID know. And I
> > can't summarily declare 
> > that he is in hell just because he wasn't a Christian. 
> 
> Interesting.....I sure like that a lot more than to simply say "Hellbound!"
> without any real thought 


Me too, although the validity of the "hellbound" cry depends on the
situation and context. 


> behind it. The Christians I know could learn to hear some of this stuff
> that yer saying, because 
> they seem more intent on proclaiming eternal hellfire on those they
> disagree with, rather than 
> really get into the nitty gritty of the message like you did. Do you have
> an email address?


Yep. I can float it to you in netmail.


> > And there is a difference between a person who is a unbeliever because he
> > denied Jesus, and 
> > being an unbeliever because he never even heard of Jesus but was searching
> > for God according 
> > to the amount of light that he DID have. Big difference.
> 
> Yeah, one doesn't believe in the Bible because he's never heard of it, and
> one has heard of it but 
> rejects it. I'm closer to the second category I guess, but not exactly.


I guess we can explore that in email. :-)
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