In Reply to: can't tell with "great certainty" posted by Acheick on January 08, 2004 at 08:48:42:
'To me the key is to keep learning and discovering and researching, and as long as I don't think I have "it" then I'm safe.'
I am with you on this one.
Most of the crimes in history have been committed by people who were so sure of their pposition and ideas that they wanted to enforce them on others. Of course this is just my opinion but even when I call myself a Christian and believe in the Bible's message (all of it, exactly as written) so you could call me a fundamntalist, I don't take the same interpretation most fundamentalist do. The reason is simple, it is like AG pointed out very well, that my God (I do prefer to use that word) is not one who would destroy but one who creates and saves. I understand the sacrifice of the lanb but to me it means something else. I cannot believe in a supreme being who condemns by default some people over the other side of the world just because they were born within a non-Christian culture. I don't believe they are lost just like I don't believe a little prayer will save forever one like Berg. There is more to the story and even Paul recognized that when he said that we only know in part...