Nice try Mark, you are thinking out, but Conviction Confession and Repentance are, by definition ALWAYS “under duress”. How can one accept a Savior if one feels no genuine need of one? To feel the genuine need, one feels the Conviction of one’s Sins, and the need for a change of mind and direction, “repentance”. No feeling of the weight of Sin, no duress as it were, no experience of genuine forgiveness.
At bottom your thinking ends up regarding belief as an INTELLECTUAL acceptance of a Historical/Philosophical Proposition; anyone who has “felt the blood applied” in Wesley’s phrase knows it is much more than that.
Hume invited Tiger not to a change of ideas, but to a life changing relationship.
In a sense, he enters into a...

on a crucial hole in a significant tournament assessed HIMSELF a one stroke penalty under the Strict Rules of Golf, not the official scorer, HIMSELF.
THAT's integrity IN and FOR the Game that is a Valhalla higher than The Sports Almanac.

mick

Sorry Charlie,
"He who does not believe is condemned already because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God."
Jesus

By the way, the only way to be counted "righteous" is by Faith in Christ.

Wrong "easy" button, MM.

mick

His kids don't count huh?

Divorce isn't Redemption or Reconciliation is it, MM, you know that from experience. Neither is it Forgiveness and Forgiveness can only be granted not purchased. You know that too.
Conviction, Confession, Repentance, Restitution, Penance, Reconciliation, Forgiveness. That’s the whole Redemption Process. 50mil and some legalese don’t do squat for that.
Forgiveness is from the Heart, you can buy, or rather rent, bodies, you can’t buy hearts, you should know that too. Reduce Love to Dollars and you don’t have Love any more do you?
50 mil can redeem a lot of Pawn Tickets, but not one Loving Relationship. And certainly not Trust.

Two other lacunae in your Theology, or rather lack of it....

We need to be finding them first and sending them to deliver our blasphemies to Allah in person.

mick

Every word out of his mouth makes it clear he thinks his readers are stupid enough to believe what he's selling.
Nothing like a low opinion of your audience, but then that's commieqrs for ya. Day is the Great Ruling Class Elite and the rest of us is just peons.
Inside the Beltlooper Disease.
Hell even Bill Bennet and Bill Chrystal were letting it show on Bennets radio show a day or so back, talking about how THEY needed to properly "channel" the Rage Real Americans feel these days.
I'll never listen to or read Bennet again the Aristo. He can kiszmyasz.
Mick

all part of the whole yin yang thing.

mick

My take on Jesus' "blasphemy against the Holy Spirit" which cannot be forgiven is it has two components. Ultimately the only thing that Separates one from Grace is a refusal to accept it, a rejection of Christ. What the Pharisees in the pericope were doing.
But further what they were doing was calling Jesus "beelzebub" attributing the Works of God to The Devil.

They were guilty of a deliberate Moral Inversion because of their chosen unbelief.

Deliberate Moral Inversion from a position of Rebellious Unbelief IS the Commieqr Position is it not?

mick

aw come on girl, you know they is commieqrs and commieqrs been at WAR with Christians since the 60's. "Imagine no religion" ole John Lenin Marx hisself.
Get the White Male Christian Heteros has been National Policy since Janet Renal instituted the Renal Doctrine.

mick

Can't wait to hear the howls over this one.

Hey Haldeedoodoo, think this one's going to make her a ton of money? Or is even a manish woman lovely when sharing Grace?

I would point out that Hume's invitation to Woods was one of the most Christlike acts I have witnessed on TV.
For "those who have ears to hear" Brit said something that could benefit himself in no possible way, indeed only open him to scorn, but said it out of the only TRUE sense of COMPASSION I have seen for Woods.
Everyone else had words only for the Economics or how to "manage" the "crisis".
Brit told him how he could make it right.
"Blessed are ye when men say all manner of evil against you for my name's sake, for thus
they treated the...