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Old 06-07-2008, 03:13 PM
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Re: Personal Convictions
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Brother, I have 4 children. We have the rules that all of them must follow, and then there are specific things each one is allowed or not allowed to do based on their character, strengths, weaknesses, etc. Why would it be any different with God?
Why would it NOT be any different with God? Does the word of God say this is so? The thing is we are warned about comparing God to other things. How can we decide what God is like by making a comparison to ourselves? This is the fallacy that some of the Universal Reconciliationists fall into. They reason "God is like me or I am like God, so therefore if I would save everyone even Hitler then God must think like I do and thus it must be true"

The other thing is what you said here is simply not comparable to begin with. We are talking about Eternal things compared to temporal things. We are talking about heaven and hell issues compared to what you are talking about. Personal convictions are PERSONAL. They are from ourselves, not from God
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