mr tovey

Submitted by tripps (United States), Oct 21, 2012 at 08:03

In response to your response, I would point out that God, and thus also Jesus as well, expects us as Christians to do for ourselves as well. Example: We do have free will. Jonah was ordered by God to prophesize n teach but instead ran away fearing for his life and was thus by doing so put the very thing he sought to save (his life) in jeopardy (the storm and the whale). Jesus said he who tries to save his life shall lose it . The holocaust: How many jews were murdered w8n for God to save them because they were unwilling or unable of saving themselves? Havent the Jews learned their lesson? I'd say so since every building in Israel now proclaims very loudly "NEVER AGAIN!" Are we now as Christians destined to make the same holocaustic mistake? Will we also let ourselves be led to death without resistance hoping for God's intervention when clearly He has shown us that this is our decision, responsibility and duty to avert? ...

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