Posted on 11/20/2014 9:51:44 AM PST by ifinnegan
A Christian and an atheist can (in the eyes of society) live equally moral lives. However, the atheist can not come up with a congruent explaination for doing so. The Christian can.
“...the atheist can not come up with a congruent explaination for doing so. The Christian can.”
Yes. Absolutely correct.
Hewitt did not seem to understand this.
He's a confused and arrogant guy who gives Californians a bad name.
Hugh Hewitt has been a defender and promoter of Mormonism for many years.
That is an odd activity for a Christian to practice in his role as writer and talk show host.
Islamics act the opposite because their god is Satan
Me too.
I listened to Hewitt and really appreciated him from the start of his, then KIEV, radio show. When it was first in the morning.
I think the dynamics of the conservative movement and Republican membership have changed over the years to make his establishment and statism more clear.
I am not glad that he has lost a lot of my respect.
All I know is when I stand before that throne on Judgment Day, I don’t want Hugh as my lawyer.
HH is a fraudulent conservative. I stopped listening to him after he cut off a caller who was attempting to explain the Koranic basis for Islamic terrorism, and all Hewitt would do was accuse him of branding all Muslims as terrorists, and then ended his call. I then realized that he’s very much part of the problem.
The money shot.
Repellicans have always despised the irreverant, demonstration prone, rabble-rousing, action oriented citizens among us. Such types, (I include myself even though I'm still registered (R)) are considered tasteless, obnoxiouss and without class of any sort!!!
They are disgusted by our hickish, hayseed, common prostations as unsophisticated, even though most of the candidates they promote are brimming with PC mundaneness spouting pragmatic sophistry, oblivious to the obvious, rather than genuine, honest constitutional conservativism!!!
What Hewitt is describing is the fact that some people are moral by Christian standards because they are living on the remnants of our Christian heritage which is being lost quickly. But most people are not so living. They are making up their own rules and chaos is building.
The program explains why Hewitt is a respector of persons Republican rather than a respector of right and wrong.
Well, if you read no farther than verse 9 and completely ignored the clarkfication of verse 10 immediately foliowing that is tightly relevant to the whole subject, keeping the whole subject in perspective, one could possibly agree with your assertion.
It says:"For we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. (emphasis added of course)
You sure have that right!!! Great comment.
I guess that he thinks that there is no such thing as a conscience. Boy is HE desperate for attention or what. Lol.
He wouldn't even be on the air unless he had sent in a really good resume, interviewed very well and had a very good MIDDLE OF THE ROAD "point of view" to present to the world.
Maybe he lied just to be able to get in and THEN spout his nonsense. Seems like a LONG way to go to spout nonsense to people who aren't inclined to believe it if they have ONE shred of I.Q.
Perhaps his biggest surprise will come at the end of his life when he meets his Maker. OOOoooooo, shudder, I wouldn't want to be him and have to explain THAT absurd, self-centered, egotistical point of view to our Maker.
Pope emeritus Benedict XVI said that MORAL RELATIVISM is the greatest evil of our time.
He nailed it.
The Great White Throne Judgement is just for those about to be tossed into hell. Revelation 20:11-15
All saved children of God get the Bema Seat Judgement (rewards).
Romans 14:10-12 & 2 Corinthians 5:10
If you’re saved...Jesus is your lawyer.
Please notice, this is absolutely true and not at all in conflict with my remarks. God has "ordained" or "appointed" good works that we should walk in them. Do we do so? Well, occasionally. Do we fail? Routinely. Ask Paul in Rom. 7 if he did it all the time. I believe his answer is crystal clear.
"Please notice, this is absolutely true and not at all in conflict with my remarks."
Isn't the top comment exactly what you said? Are you confused? Or is it me?
I'm not trying to be argumentative but I'm sensing some inconsistency between your two comments/quotes above. Can you clarify? I thought I detected a distinct difference in the two sentences...
Hewitt has always been a bit of an odd one, IMO. He takes the side of the establishment in many instances, yet plays like he’s a movement conservative.
LOL. It is probably my explanation. The statements are all uniformly true. God has selected some for rescue. Their behavior, their characters, their natures do not affect His decision. Notice, Romans 9:11ff, "...Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad - in order that God's purpose in election might stand, not by works but by Him who calls - she (Rebecca) was told, "The older will serve the younger." just as it is written, "Jacob I loved, Esau I hated."....So then, it does not depend on the man who chooses or the man who exerts effort, but on God's mercy...Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden."
The selection for salvation is entirely in God's hands and He does not select based upon works of any sort. If that is settled, then Paul is entirely right to make the follow on statement. Once a man is rescued (again, not based on anything he has done, thought, wanted previously, etc.), God has set out things which He has appointed for him to do...good things. But, do rescued men always do them? No. David, Moses, Solomon, Paul, Peter, et al to a man did awful things after they were rescued.
Men, men chosen by God for salvation, simply do not always do those things which are appropriate. If this is what HH is getting at, then he is right. If he is saying, men who are rescued will love to murder, rape, steal, and call it good...then he is mistaken. There is a fine line between doing the evil and loving to do the evil. One sees their evil and hates it. The other sees the evil and wallows in it.
But, definitely, Praeger (as a Jew who believes the Law is teaching him how to be "good") would disagree with this. He mistakenly thinks the Mosaic Law is for training purposes to make men fit for heaven. He thinks that the Judge will weigh the lives of men and save those "worthy of life". This is, according to Paul, (Rom. 3) a misunderstanding and misuse of the Law. Does that help?
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