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Re: Falwell and Robertson blame gays and liberals for WTC Attack
On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Kelvin Bailey wrote:
> --- rhys daily <shadow at teuton_org> wrote:
> > since when does God give precedence to one life over another? when did
> > it become nations that wer eprotected, not people? jesus didn't die
> > for nations, masses of people bound by ideology or dictators or land
> > boundaries drawn by strangers, he didn't die for government buildings
> > and deptartments. he died for people.
>
> That's a good question. All through the Old Testament God blessed or
> cursed nations. The history of Israel is full of their being blessed
> and cursed/destroyed as a nation. I think the question you raised is,
> given the fact that those occurances were in the Old Testament and under
> the Law, does God still act this way under grace?
Toss in there the fact that some New Testament scholars believe that Jesus
predicted the destruction of Jerusalem at the hand of the Romans, and
believed that this destruction would be the wrath of God.
--- Peter T. Chattaway --------------------------- peter at chattaway_com ---
"I detected one misprint, but to torture you I will not tell you where."
Winston Churchill to T.E. Lawrence, re Seven Pillars of Wisdom
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