while that is one trait of some moden Christian communties, it is historically not the only, or even dominant viewpoint on salvation.
the neo-orthodox that i am, i have to say feelingsmeg is a whole lot closer to the Gospel than the idea of highly personalized salvation.
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Originally Posted by I John 4:7-12
Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us.
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in short...i think these people have constructed an idol, a miserly and impotent one at that. i don't dare to say that God cannot reach in to every life exactly where they are, or that God cannot love another human being as God's own child. to theorize a god that is as bound as this theology of self-hatred requires...is to worship a dead thing, something that is nothing more than a human creation.
/end thread jack