Posted on 02/07/2014 6:23:09 PM PST by Borges
I was a 56-year-old man who had never before (or after) been accused of child molestation. I had been going out with Mia for 12 years and never in that time did she ever suggest to me anything resembling misconduct. Now, suddenly, when I had driven up to her house in Connecticut one afternoon to visit the kids for a few hours, when I would be on my raging adversary’s home turf, with half a dozen people present, when I was in the blissful early stages of a happy new relationship with the woman I’d go on to marry — that I would pick this moment in time to embark on a career as a child molester should seem to the most skeptical mind highly unlikely.
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Not me There is not a doubt in my mind that he is a sick sick man and did this. One only has to read the documents online to see how sick he was.
There were witnesses who said he was inappropriate with her and in fact, he was in counseling for his inappropriate behavior with her when he adopted her.
I feel for anyone having to defend themselves when they are falsely accused. His narrative seems genuine enough. He writes just like he speaks... I mean I could hear all of his vocal inflections and pauses as I read that.
Joseph Fouche Napoleon’s minister of police said: It is not enough to merely kill a man. You must destroy his reputation”
Let me clear up a common confusion that blasphemes God.
“Complete metanoia” (or whatever fancy way you want to state it) is the fruit of an actual spiritual promise. I do not affirm, as Arminians do, that one can modulate one’s state of salvation after having accepted it. One can modulate one’s ultimate reward and liability to earthly chastisement, but that’s really all. (At the same time, I count choice as being worth something, unlike Calvinists.)
Also even more prominently, even for YOU, your “complete metanoia” will only have come to pass at the verge of your passing through the pearly gates. It pays to stay humble.
You are liable to hell as well. You might fall short in a different shape than Allen does, but you definitely fall short. My question to you is what have you done about that liability?
Then you would be talking about earthly consequences only.
The moment you bleed over into talk about eternal fate... POW. You are standing before a Maker who offers only ONE way.
Do you believe (hypothetically speaking) that salvation can occur in the post-mortem instant?
Death bed conversions are valid if that is what you are getting at. God would prefer it happen earlier — it’s a better witness that way.
No. That’s not what I asked.
Do you believe that in that moment after passage into eternity that a choice (plea) can still effect salvation?
Or maybe your question means such that the best answer is: your salvation is “complete in the day of Christ Jesus.” Which offers a lot of red herrings because Christ Jesus has a lot of “days” but truly, the acknowledge-and-repent cycle won’t be finished until the verge of heaven. Now for those who have gotten far along on earth such that their faith is full of joy, I think they would also find that final repentance in line with same. It might amount to a mild sense of embarrassment and a readily willing correction. Others, it could be a lot rougher. But the salvation promise accepted during lifetime, wraps one’s entire eternity. Do not ask me more. I didn’t invent this reality. I’m only mapping it from the scriptures, “rightly dividing” the word of truth.
As much as I’d like to say yes, I don’t see that being mapped into the plan. No promise, no affirmation. It is given once for man to die and then the judgment. The witness of a salvation acceptance is during life. The completion of its work is not until before entry into heaven.
That is an eminently reasonable reading of scripture.
Without making judgement (for only God knows truly what is in each man’s heart) I think this testimony is fascinating:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3KU-fvd6lc
Nobody will ever know but the involved parties involved but this piece persuaded me. Anyone can make (or a mother can make a child make) a self-serving accusation.
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