Invitation to INTERNET DAILY CHAPEL - June 18, 2009, Featuring "No Hell For Those Who Love Others Same As Self"

Invitation to INTERNET DAILY CHAPEL - June 18, 2009, Featuring "No Hell For Those Who Love Others Same As Self"

You are invited to visit today's INTERNET DAILY CHAPEL, featuring "No Hell For Those Who Love Others Same As Self," plus our regular other worship items, as updated for today.

INTERNET DAILY CHAPEL is "The Christian Daily Worship Service And Practical Guide Of Internet Church Of Christ."

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THE NATURE OF GOOD AND EVIL, RIGHT AND WRONG - God is as He is, whether we like it or not. We use the words "good" and "evil" in a moral sense to describe our attitudes toward things which affect us. When something helps us, we call that "good." And when something harms us, we call that "evil" or "bad." God, Himself, is beyond good and evil, just as He is beyond time and matter. He is as He is. "And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM:" (Exodus 3:14 KJV)) From God's perspective, we are "good" or "righteous" when we live according to His will for us. And we are "evil," or "unrighteous" or we do "wrong" or we "sin" when we live in opposition to His will. Seen from God's perspective, good and evil are not absolutes, like absolute black and absolute white; but they have different degrees, like different shades of gray, according to how close they are to His will. Likewise, the will of God has different degrees of intensity, similar to emotions in humans: from extreme high intensity to very low, from passion to indifference. Some things are much more important to Him than others. So God may intensely desire that we not murder anyone today, but He may not care at all whether we have roast beef or chicken for dinner, or if our underwear is spotlessly white. Moreover, His will is not the same for all people in the same situation, nor for the same person in different situations. In any situation, He has different roles for different people: some leaders, some helpers, some followers, some non-participants, etc. And the same person may have different roles in different situations: at work he is a technician; at home, the husband to his wife and the father to his children; on the road, just another driver, etc. In each situation and for each person, God's will is somewhat different, according to that person's role in the situation. And in many, many cases, He doesn't really care: we can do whatever we want, as long as we do not exceed the limits He has set for us. He gave us free will. He wants us to be free, within very broad limits. This is what the Bible talks about when it mentions "the glorious liberty of the children of God." "Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God." (Romans 8:21 KJV) God Himself is neither good nor evil. He is as He is, whether we like it or not. It is not our business to be passing judgment on Him. He is our Creator, and we belong totally to Him, to do with as He pleases. - Excerpt from http://www.internetchurchofchrist.org/beliefsandvalues.html

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