to answer the OP title…
if he sure plays mean pinball!
Btw, I read that Helen Keller was into Swedenborg.
to answer the OP title…
if he sure plays mean pinball!
Btw, I read that Helen Keller was into Swedenborg.
Helen Keller was a politically socialist, but religiously she was Swedenborgian. Pretty far left all the way around, but she was definitely not an atheist.
And, of course, babies who die at birth must be damned to eternal agony, according to you.
Nope. Again, let me post “Suffer the children to come unto me for theirs is the kingdom of heaven” To say a baby violates his conscience is not accurate. That is also why there comes an age where children are accountable. To say it’s 13 may not be true, but it is when they are old enough to know right from wrong, and choose wrong instead, knowing the consequences of their choice. So again, no baby will be damned to eternal agony.
But to say that my conscience thinks there’s anything wrong with even all of the ten commandments is not accurate.
According to most Christians, I can sin without doing anything that violates my conscience. I sin if I drop a hammer on my foot and shout out “Goddamn it!” I sin. My conscience says, “What the hell is wrong with that?”
Julie
Yes!
That is how he escapes the HELL of being a deaf, dumb and blind boy.
It was bad karma.
Dal Timgar
Even if your conscience doesn’t bother you, “…through the law we become conscious of sin.” (Romans 3:20b); that’s how you recognize that violating any of the commandments is a sin.
You’re circling back on yourself.
You said my conscience would alert me to the sin. Are you saying now that my conscience alone won’t tell me that I’m sinning?
Julie
Oops. I think I’m attributing an argument to you that you didn’t make. Svt4Him did.
Sorry.
Julie
My conscience must be broken then because it doesn’t seem to give a crap if I use God’s name in vain or if I covet my neighbor’s wife or if I decide to blow off that whole “accepting Jesus as my personal and savior” thing. My consience really only bothers me if I actually do something to hurt somebody (or fail to help somebody when I have the ability). It seems to be completely areigious because it’s never given me the slightest twinge about not buying into supernatural beliefs. Actually it does just the opposite. It tells me not to accept a God who would invent hell and a bunch of silly nonsense rules for avoiding it.
Is my faulty conscience my fault or God’s?
At the risk of sounding like I’m circling back on myself…
…your conscience will alert you to sin–maybe not to every sin, I’m not sure: “…the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness…” (Romans 2:15). God wants us to recognize–whether through the law or through our consciences (for those who do not have the law)–that we sin against him, so that we also recognize our need to repent of our sinful ways in order to restore our relationship with him.