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To: HarleyD; kosta50; Campion; redgolum; annalex

"If this was so there was no reason for the death of His Son, no need for the fire and brimstone of Sodom, and certainly no need for flooding the earth. This is not the God of scripture."

Well, I've answered your first point many times, even on this thread, HD. Come on!

Points two and three may mean two things. First, the destruction of Sodom and the Flood, like the devastation of the tsunami a year ago, was likely the result of the burden of sin distorting creation. Sin, HD, has screwed up everything, not simply people. Why doesn't the lion lie down with the lamb, HD? Sin. Yet we know from the writings of the Desert Fathers the many stories of this precise thing happening under the influence of holy monastics who have come to theosis, or near theosis in this life. The story of the lion and the donkey from the life of St. Gerasimos springs to mind. At any rate, these events you refer to also have a didactic aspect through which God shows us the destructive nature of sin.

You don't honestly think that God destroyed nearly everyone in the world because He was mad at people, do you; that God was the author of that destruction?


122 posted on 01/02/2006 6:22:18 PM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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To: Kolokotronis; kosta50; Campion; redgolum; annalex
You don't honestly think that God destroyed nearly everyone in the world because He was mad at people, do you; that God was the author of that destruction?

I am reminded of Phinehas in Numbers 25. When he saw a couple defiling the Lord's tent of meeting by having sex in the doorway most of the congregation simply wrung their hand in consternation. Phinehas instead took a javelin and ran them through. The Lord didn't call this murder. Instead the Lord blessed Phinehas and gave him a perpetual priesthood.

So to answer your question, yes. God does not look kindly on those who defile Him or His holiness.

Ah...those were the days of simple solutions. ;O)

152 posted on 01/03/2006 1:44:40 AM PST by HarleyD ("Command what you will and give what you command." - Augustine's Prayer)
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