Re: OT: Shades of gray?

Ouch...my ears are burning. ;) Actually I didn't hear what she said and
didn't realize what had happened until H. told me once we got home. I must
have walked in just after she said it, though, because I remember things got
quiet when I came back in the room. I just figured ya'll were talking about
me.

To this day, I can't believe a friend could be so cruel. Even if she
someohow absolutely knew it to be true, which, of course, no one ever could,
she should have kept it to herself. When I confronted her about it, and she
said she "couldn't lie."

BTW, that's specifically who I had in mind when I said some folks are afriad
to look at the gray areas in life. Ask me about that Hebrew novel she's had
for 2 years and is afraid to read.

"Blupencl" <Blupencl.25cnkd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Susan Mitchell Wrote:
What a pig that preacher was and may I add typical of the
fundamentalists I
have run into in my path, wastes of human flesh! I wasn't going to
jump in
this thread but preachers like that are why I'm not attending churches
--
there are way too many of them -- in fact I feel they all have a bit of
that
in them.

--
Sue -- Firefighter mom -- Still Rabid UW Dawg Fan!
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"Sandi" <SandiWorkman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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If so, then that's exactly what I was referring to. Sitting here in
class, I don't have a Bible on me, but my belief is that it is not up
to me to judge whether anther person is a Christian because I can't
possibly know what is in his heart. Of course we are instructed to
show our Chrisitanity to others through our behavior, but since none
of
us are perfect, it's entirely possibly to have the proper heart and
still make mistakes that would lead others, if they aren't on their
very best Christian behavior, to point fingers.

I sat at my father's funeral and listened to a fundamentalist
preacher
say, almost verbatim, "Bill wasn't a Christian, so he's in hell
today,
but you don't have to be." He honestly thought he knew my father's
heart. What a sick, sick example of a man professing to be a
Christian.

Sandi

I had a friend say something similar to that to me about my husband -
to my face - in the physical presence of somebody who is on this board
right now. :) She didn't mean anything hateful to me about it at all.
It is just that she truly believed it.

I realize I'm not God. I realize I don't know what's in everybody's
heart and I'm not sure about all the rules. Nonetheless, I can speak to
some of what was in his heart, and as mad as he made me, and with all
the bad things he did in his life, he did many, many good things, and I
can't see a benevolent God putting him in hell. He couldn't help his
raising and he struggled all his adult life to TRY and believe. He just
didn't have the foundation.

I still love the friend who said that to me, but it made me more than a
bit mad at the time till I realized that we all have our beliefs,
whatever they may be, and hers don't have to match mine. :)


--
Blupencl


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