tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529365993866431111.post3944533561573356145..comments2023-04-30T04:57:11.101-07:00Comments on A Great God and Good Coffee: For unto you is born this day . . .Erick Reinstedthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17687593837022660081noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529365993866431111.post-87558612614783366582010-12-18T16:50:09.141-08:002010-12-18T16:50:09.141-08:00Thanks for sharing, Amy. I find that the more I lo...Thanks for sharing, Amy. I find that the more I look at any "compromises" with God's Word, the more I realize that there can't be any. Universalism totally contradicts what God's Word records Jesus saying. There's no way to mesh a belief in the Bible as the inspired Word of God and it. Another is what I shared with you in an email—trying to believe in God's Word and evolution. You can't. If you do, then when was the Fall? When was man advanced enough to be accountable for his choices? What about all the death before that time of accountability, and how does that mesh with the wages of sin being death, etc. I know you know all that, but it is another area where I find compromise just fails. I know, I tried that path as an early Christian. It is either His Word, as His Word, or it's not, and if it's not then I guess everyone can just pick and choose what they want to believe. I thank God that His Word IS His Word, and I know that you stand beside me on that! God bless you, Sister. Have a very Merry Christmas!Erick Reinstedthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17687593837022660081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5529365993866431111.post-65558442681736524992010-12-18T14:39:26.698-08:002010-12-18T14:39:26.698-08:00I have been having a "Personal Message" ...I have been having a "Personal Message" conversation on this very topic with one of my Facebook friends(whom I've never met personally). He says he's a "follower of Jesus" but "hopes that Universalism is correct so that everyone can get to heaven." I made several of the same points you did in your blog. The "clincher" for me is, if there were other ways for us to get to heaven, then Jesus was a complete fool to endure the cross and everything that preceded it to make a way for us to get to heaven. But of course he wasn't, because there wasn't! <br /><br />Anyway, thank you for writing that blog. I pray that God will use it to shine His truth into hearts and minds that have been misled into false hope.Amyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03268849975538109522noreply@blogger.com