A RESPONSE TO THOMAS KELLY (Religion)

by Thomas Kelly , Thursday, May 31, 2012, 16:45 (4341 days ago) @ Thomas Kelly

You put.-"I hope you will not regard the above as offensive. I'm simply trying to understand what lies behind your posts"-Thanks.-To show you more about the system of things in the world and how harmful people are a part, you may read more from the early church fathers below.-Part of-Chapter XXV.—Evil Beings Turned to Good Account.-let us consider this earnestly, that God the Creator of the universe, foreseeing the future differences of His creation, foresaw and provided diverse ranks and different offices to each of His creatures, according to the peculiar movements which were produced from freedom of will; so that while all men are of one substance in respect of the method of creation, there should yet be diversity in ranks and offices, according to the peculiar movements of minds, to be produced from liberty of will. Therefore He foresaw that there would be faults in His creatures; and the method of His justice demanded that punishment should follow faults, for the sake of amendment. It behoved, therefore, that there should be ministers of punishment, and yet that freedom of will should draw them into that order. Moreover, those also must have enemies to conquer, who had undertaken the contests for the heavenly rewards. Thus, therefore, neither are those things destitute of utility which are thought to be evil, since the conquered unwillingly acquire eternal rewards for those by whom they are conquered.-From The Recognitions of Clement, Book IV. -http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf08.vi.iii.vi.xxv.html-Thats All for now.

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