Originally Posted By: Drew Hause
Keith: send your friend a PM and ask if, as a Roman Catholic, you have hope of salvation.

I understand now, and am happy to drop it, until the next slavery as God's will post comes up....


Preacher, I'm not really concerned whether Miller or anyone else besides Jesus thinks I have any hope of salvation. I have my own religion, and I have my own sins to worry about. I also still live in a country where no man or no government may impose another religion on me if I don't wish to practice it. And Miller has indeed told us in the past that he is no man's judge. He repeated it for you once again.

I still haven't seen where Miller ever said that slavery is or was God's will. He has merely stated that there is no Biblical prohibition against it. And try as you might, you haven't found any direct prohibition of it in the Bible either. Even the Commandments He gave to Moses and the formerly enslaved Jewish people didn't contain such a prohibition. But that doesn't mean we should infer "tacit approval" by either Miller or God.

That also doesn't mean that God created or sanctioned slavery, or that it is God's will that some people have been enslaved throughout history. There are a lot of evils in this world that God is aware of without those evils being the will of God. God gave man the free will to be good or evil... and He will judge us accordingly.

Of course, some here use the presence of evil or suffering in the world as their excuse to be agnostics or atheists.

Attacking a guy like Miller is about as smart as shooting a good hunting dog when you have a garbage dump full of rats to target. The reason I feel you should drop this attack on Miller is simply because you are also somehow seeing words which he never ever said. It wouldn't kill you to apologize to him either.

This is also why I like the QUOTE function, and why I hate to see any posts or threads deleted here. We have the power to go back to see exactly what was said, and what wasn't said, unless those words are deleted. Locked threads are great, because then people like Bob Cash and SKB can't go back and edit out what they said. Unfortunately, we also have some (like a certain two-faced Canadian weasel) who see things that were never said, and some others who will deny their own words even when QUOTED with a date and post number provided.

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