I EXPLAIN GOD, PART I

Interesting reading until "But I think that fathers who abandon their children and girls who keep having babies to get more welfare are on the road to Hell. ...most people I know are on a superhighway to Hell. ...and good riddance...."

I don't excuse this behavior, but you sound as if you're better than they. Even if you don't engage in that particular behavior, you're not better (or better enough). You (and I) are no better than those you say "good riddance" to. Do you say "good riddance" to yourself? Or your loved ones?

You ignore that we are ALL under just condemnation. You imply that works count in our begin acceptable to God. You forget Grace. And that's one of the worst things I can say to or about someone who claims to take the Scripture seriously.

Look, I'm a Catholic, so I believe there are at least three parts to grace. The first is that it is unearned and given freely. The second is that is has to be responded to by the recipient because God seldom thrusts his will on creatures he made to be free. The third is, among many appropriate responses to grace, such as gratitude, the foremost is faith. Faith from a Catholic perspective has to be accompanied by works. We pull that one from James. Many would say those works are also a product of grace, both in the will to do them and the means. No argument from me, and from me you'll get no argument that I am sin--born with it and tending toward it in spite of salvation. Only in mercy do I have a hope. But if keep burying that hope, keep doing what I know to be wrong, keep ignoring the call to change, to seek help, to repent, I've pretty much turned my back on God. And God help me if I or anyone else keeps going in that direction because Hell is the final destination.