Comments on: What value do people have? http://www.esler.org/2008/08/01/what-value-do-people-have/ Home of Ted's untidy brain Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:51:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Aaron Tweeton http://www.esler.org/2008/08/01/what-value-do-people-have/comment-page-1/#comment-42911 Aaron Tweeton Sat, 02 Aug 2008 04:13:18 +0000 http://www.esler.org/?p=166#comment-42911 Mr. Green, and any everyone else including myself, need to remember that all we really give God is sin and rebellion. Yet, in His great love, He gave His Son to save poor rebels, people from every tongue and language and nation. The Father did not exercise some cold logic, saving people merely because they could benefit Him somehow, but because He first loved us. We really should love Africa and Africans, not based on a pragmatic "what's-in-it-for-me" attitude, but echoing the great love of Christ. In the Gospel, God is always the Giver, and we are like hungry beggars. Ted, you rightly say to steer away from "final solutions". That's exactly what this is sounding like. Mr. Green, and any everyone else including myself, need to remember that all we really give God is sin and rebellion. Yet, in His great love, He gave His Son to save poor rebels, people from every tongue and language and nation. The Father did not exercise some cold logic, saving people merely because they could benefit Him somehow, but because He first loved us. We really should love Africa and Africans, not based on a pragmatic “what’s-in-it-for-me” attitude, but echoing the great love of Christ.

In the Gospel, God is always the Giver, and we are like hungry beggars. Ted, you rightly say to steer away from “final solutions”. That’s exactly what this is sounding like.

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