On 6 May 2008 00:59:53 -0400, wdstarr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(William December Starr)
wrote:
>In article <oIGdnQjgP5CKq4LVnZ2dnUVZ_vqdnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>monkfish <monkfish@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:
>> [News re****t:]
>>> A retired Coast Guard veteran was sentenced to 20 years in prison
>>> Tuesday after pleading guilty to ***ually assaulting a
>>> 12-year-old boy at a Juneau church camp last spring and then
>>> paying $300 to keep the child from re****ting the crime.
>> That means he cannot be a Christian.
>Technically, doesn't it just mean that he could not have been a
>Christian when he was committing the sins?
Or possibly he could have been an imperfect Christian all along.
Indeed, I was under the impression that Christians, as a class,
believe that all Christians (and everybody else) are so imperfect
as to rack up a tally of sins sufficient to justify damnation.
So it's hard for me to see how any reasonably informed person,
and especially a reasonably informed Christian, can point to
someone and say, "He commits damnable sins, therefore he cannot
be a Christian".
Well, OK, it's easy for me to see how someone could say it, if
they expected they were dealing with an uninformed audience that
would fall for it.
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