I'll try.....
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but here's the real kicker that no evangelical has been able to answer me, yet. subsequently, I wonder if this post will be ignored. but let's just put this out there and see if anyone is actually brave enough to address it:
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I am a recovering evangelical, but I remember the days well.
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according to the tenets of free-will in the current dogma of most all american evangelical branches of christianity, it's a given that your deity can not force you to comply to his will. he has to allow you to choose his grace and all that great stuff for salvation.
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O.K., this is correct (even the terminology is correct, minus "great stuff").
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there is no biblical mandate to force people to obey the code within it.
if there were, why doesn't the deity do so?
why do you feel a moral obligation to force people to not be sinful when your own deity doesn't do it?
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This is where you lost me.
I agree with the mandate part, but I am not following how the "deity" doesn't do so.
Also, there is a little misconception regarding the last statement regarding the "not be sinful". One of the tenets of modern-day Christianity is "for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of god" (Romans something, something). I don't see it preached as to "not be sinful" but to strive not to be sinful, knowing that we will all fail in some way or another (hence the salvation part - to save us from ourselves, etc., etc.)