tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807797510077851525.post4638736678684908328..comments2022-07-22T20:25:35.857-08:00Comments on Lox Populi: The Mystery of MercyTiffany Borgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03027802344101689023noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807797510077851525.post-72772184946402970522012-02-13T04:24:20.734-09:002012-02-13T04:24:20.734-09:00"God loves you enough to let you go to Hell, ...<i>"God loves you enough to let you go to Hell, why would I claim to know better?"</i> Wow. I'm still pondering this one...it packs a punch; is subtle. Your husband blows away philosophers! <br /><br /><i>And I'd say the birdcage can only be opened from the inside, but God leaves it unlatched.</i> Heh. I'd say he only gives birdcages to those lucky ones who pray for them real real hard...mdavidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807797510077851525.post-80316578298907202802012-02-12T23:50:04.126-09:002012-02-12T23:50:04.126-09:00This makes me think of a pickup line of sorts (you...This makes me think of a pickup line of sorts (you've been warned) that my husband shared with me, when we first met. I think his exact words were, "God loves you enough to let you go to Hell, why would I claim to know better?" So although that sounds nuts as 'first date chat' now --- he was speaking specifically about continuing the lifestyle I was immersed in, or getting sober --- it's still a pretty good analogy for sin/attempting virtue.<br /><br />Mystery. And I'd say the birdcage can only be opened from the inside, but God leaves it unlatched. ; ) Great points.Tiffany Borgeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03027802344101689023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1807797510077851525.post-80931578742623933662012-02-11T09:13:27.575-09:002012-02-11T09:13:27.575-09:00Another funny and well written post.
One comment...Another funny and well written post. <br /><br />One comment on <i>Peter Kreeft's "if we believe in a loving God, we must also believe in the possibility that Hell is empty"</i>.<br /><br />Once in a while Kreeft misfires, and this quote is one of those times. Of <i>course</i> hell must have people...but only if God is, in fact, a loving deity. <br /><br />Why? God made man in His own image. Foremost here is having <i>free will</i>, being free to choose. So God opens the birdcage out of love. When man wishes to be apart from God, God will most certainly let him do so, out of love alone. Hell is, if anything, <i>a home built for and by sinners who cannot accept God</i>. God, because he is loving, will never take this freedom from man, the freedom to choose evil. Hence, hell will always have people, and when the bus comes by on its way to heaven, some people will stay off. It's a tough choice, to give up sin, and methinks (based upon my experience here on earth) that heaven will likely be less populated than hell...if God is in fact loving...mdavidnoreply@blogger.com