tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32298156.post5761103280294047961..comments2007-07-25T21:27:40.035-07:00Sharktacoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14211582724058718297noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32298156.post-88052978018182363722007-07-25T21:27:00.000-07:002007-07-25T21:27:00.000-07:00Adam, <BR/>that is a great question! So I'm gonna address it in a longer blog post. http://sharktacos.com/God/2007/07/evil-in-us.htmlSharkhttp://sharktacos.com/God/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32298156.post-54014447858768185792007-07-25T05:23:00.000-07:002007-07-25T05:23:00.000-07:00I just finished reading your essay on penal substitution vs christus victor. I am very intrigued and I think you are putting into words some things that have been on my mind for a while. One thing I struggle with there and in this blog post is the idea that christus victor takes on a victim mentality to sin. I would really like to know how this view of atonement fits in with the idea that we do viciously choose to sin and are guilty, not just victims, of evil.<BR/><BR/>If God is out to fight evil then in a sense he is out to fight us since the fall corrupted us such that we have become evil ourselves. This is the one issue I am grappling with. I can understand how the cross works to free us from the oppression of evil, but not how it deals with the fact that I am evil.Adamgodssamurai.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32298156.post-54644159184240088992007-07-23T16:53:00.000-07:002007-07-23T16:53:00.000-07:00Hey Jon, glad you made it over! Glad you liked the Hell article, link away :)Derekhttp://sharktacos.com/God/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32298156.post-56277904914975332012007-07-23T16:49:00.000-07:002007-07-23T16:49:00.000-07:00David,<BR/>No idea about Purgatory. I'm do think that there needs to be a renewal of all things that will go beyond what we are able to achieve on this earth where "every tear will be wiped away". Here we know in part...Derekhttp://sharktacos.com/God/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32298156.post-60193456424555601062007-07-23T14:00:00.000-07:002007-07-23T14:00:00.000-07:00Shark, I love your blog. I recently discovered it. I just finished reading your paper on Hell that you have linked on your sidebar. I hope you don't mind that I linked to it from my blog.<BR/><BR/>It was excellent and captures a lot of things I've felt and thought over the years. The topic of Hell is one I've wrestled with A LOT.<BR/><BR/>God bless.Xristocharishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14166992526621626741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32298156.post-22475228764380898802007-07-22T23:03:00.000-07:002007-07-22T23:03:00.000-07:00Interesting thoughts on restorative justice. Would you regard this period of restoration as being wholely within this world, or partially in the next i.e. something purgatorial?David Castorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17367908059008038221noreply@blogger.com