tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363362.post6692297585695978137..comments2024-03-14T08:15:15.207-07:00Comments on CADRE Comments: The sheep and the goats: why there are only two final eternal destinies in the BibleBKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01967809861892681780noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363362.post-56449778885578879972010-09-27T09:20:41.276-07:002010-09-27T09:20:41.276-07:00Hi John,
Thanks for inviting me over. I like the ...Hi John,<br /><br />Thanks for inviting me over. I like the general direction you are taking here away from a retributive understanding of justice and towards a restorative one. I'd like to encourage you to take the argument a bit further than you have here though were you end up with a decision for or against God determining our eternal destiny. The reason I object to this is that I think Derekhttp://therebelgod.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363362.post-91008991518970957902010-09-24T14:41:47.137-07:002010-09-24T14:41:47.137-07:00Quicker remarks along the way:
{{But the above pr...Quicker remarks along the way:<br /><br />{{But the above problem remains with regard to the unbelievers, who certainly have done many good works in the form of giving to the poor, caring for the sick, fighting for justice and selflessly sacrificing themselves for others.}}<br /><br />In other words, by narrative context, the sheep of that judgment parable. {g} But they seem to be in no problem Jason Pratthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01602238179676591394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363362.post-3052200327812811972010-09-24T14:08:28.800-07:002010-09-24T14:08:28.800-07:00Meanwhile...
I was a little surprised you didn...Meanwhile...<br /><br />I was a little surprised you didn't talk more about the actual parable of the sheep (or "flock" rather--the term in Greek, while commonly translated 'sheep', is more generally broad than that) and the baby goats. (<i>That</i> term in Greek, on the other hand, is very precise. Yet also not usually translated fully there.)<br /><br />After all, those Jason Pratthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01602238179676591394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363362.post-43636320833260033102010-09-24T13:45:22.801-07:002010-09-24T13:45:22.801-07:00Maybe this is only because I read more than the fi...Maybe this is only because I read more than the final sentence of his article, Ed; but I am almost certain that JD's interpretation of God's justice (even where contra, say, my universalism {wry g}), is not supposed to be about annihilating those who question <i>that interpretation</i> of God's justice. Or who seriously question anything else, really.<br /><br />I could quote several Jason Pratthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01602238179676591394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363362.post-8117889127091636702010-09-23T19:58:26.452-07:002010-09-23T19:58:26.452-07:00"God's final justice-making initiative?&q..."God's final justice-making initiative?" "No room for compromise?" <br /><br />I guess there's no room for questions or doubts either. But do you really believe that the "case for classical theism, and the case for orthodox Christianity, and the case for YOUR interpretation of Christianity in particular (contra, say Jason Pratt's universalism), is so strong Edwardtbabinskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13036816926421936940noreply@blogger.com