Sandusky: GUILTY

TGBTG · #1 06-25-2012, 08:20 AM

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I doubt it if he ever will be. How can anybody with a conscience do what he did? I don't know if there is any hope for anybody like that. I'm not going to be lining up to help him out, personally.

There's always HOPE at the Cross of Jesus Christ...Jesus came for people like him...
Jesus shed his blood for the sins of Mr Sandusky
Jesus gave his life for Mr Sandusky's life

Matt 9 (NIV)
11 When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
12 On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 13 But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’[a] For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

O perfect redemption, the purchase of blood,
To every believer the promise of God;
The vilest offender who truly believes,
That moment from Jesus a pardon receives.

ILG · #2 06-25-2012, 08:22 AM

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Originally Posted by TGBTG

There's always HOPE at the Cross of Jesus Christ...Jesus came for people like him...
Jesus shed his blood for the sins of Mr Sandusky
Jesus gave his life for Mr Sandusky's life

Matt 9 (NIV)
11 When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
12 On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 13 But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’[a] For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

O perfect redemption, the purchase of blood,
To every believer the promise of God;
The vilest offender who truly believes,
That moment from Jesus a pardon receives.

No, that is not true. Some people's consciences are seared.

TGBTG · #3 06-25-2012, 08:52 AM

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Originally Posted by ILG

No, that is not true. Some people's consciences are seared.

In God's view, we're all as bad as Mr Sandusky.

Rom 3 (NIV)
For we have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin. 10 As it is written:

“There is no one righteous, not even one;
11 there is no one who understands;
there is no one who seeks God.
12 All have turned away,
they have together become worthless;
there is no one who does good,
not even one.”[b]

I'm not trying to excuse Mr Sandusky's offences. I'm just trying to highlight that we as Christians should not forget what GRACE is all about...

ILG · #4 06-25-2012, 09:01 AM

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Originally Posted by TGBTG

In God's view, we're all as bad as Mr Sandusky.

Rom 3 (NIV)
For we have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin. 10 As it is written:

“There is no one righteous, not even one;
11 there is no one who understands;
there is no one who seeks God.
12 All have turned away,
they have together become worthless;
there is no one who does good,
not even one.”[b]

I'm not trying to excuse Mr Sandusky's offences. I'm just trying to highlight that we as Christians should not forget what GRACE is all about...

I know what grace is all about. If Mr. Sandusky prayed a prayer of repentance and was baptized, I would say well and good but keep him locked up and away from all kids everywhere.

AreYouReady? · #5 06-25-2012, 09:02 AM

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Originally Posted by TGBTG

In God's view, we're all as bad as Mr Sandusky.

May God have mercy on all of our souls then. Sometimes we all want to think we are more righteous than others because we do not do what we consider to be vile. What if, in God's eyes, sin just shows up to God as a big ugly splotch indistinguishable from another sin? What if the sin of hate without a cause shows up the same as the sin of adultery or homosexuality?

Or what if it is just a stench and God does not distinguish or separate the smell. ..like there isn't a different smell of a lie from murder?