tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626292304461574111.post2335887752676432943..comments2023-12-27T19:24:48.254-05:00Comments on Tell me why the world is weird: How "the gospel" almost stopped us from fighting human traffickingperfectnumber628http://www.blogger.com/profile/10303683510076315803noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626292304461574111.post-58337501473296906112013-06-30T17:19:14.500-04:002013-06-30T17:19:14.500-04:00If that's true, why should we care about human...If that's true, why should we care about human trafficking? The victims deserve hell<br /> and the traffickers deserve hell. Any suffering going on right now is <br />meaningless compared to eternity in hell. And anything Christians do is a<br /> huge waste of time, unless our purpose is to save people from hell.<br /><br />Do you see how this might lead to a really skewed view of how to love<br /> people and how to respond to suffering and evil in this world?<br /><br />Check the archives of a blog called "Christian Monist" (http://evangelicalinthewilderness.blogspot.com/). That attitude (which he traces back to Platonic philosophy cross-contaminating the early Church, crowding out the original Jewish monist idea) is the continuing theme of his blog.Headless Unicorn Guynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626292304461574111.post-88939904970342090472013-06-30T17:14:50.809-04:002013-06-30T17:14:50.809-04:00"See this person being sold into sex slavery?..."See this person being sold into sex slavery? Well... uh... obviously treating people that way is a sin. And... you sin too."<br />...<br /><br />The only problem was that we believed "the gospel" was ONLY about how <br />every individual person is a sinner, and THE REASON this is bad is it <br />separates them from God, so we need Jesus in order to repair our own <br />personal spiritual relationship with God (and have him transform our <br />lives and not go to hell and all that).<br /><br />A Gospel of Personal Salvation and ONLY Personal Salvation.<br /><br />Which is completely useless regarding human trafficking and sex slavery (no Altar Call opportunity, unless it's to make sure the sex slave is Saved(TM) so she'll go to Fluffy Cloud Heaven).Headless Unicorn Guynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626292304461574111.post-63937332430400899832013-06-20T10:18:22.828-04:002013-06-20T10:18:22.828-04:00Thanks! :)Thanks! :)perfectnumber628http://tellmewhytheworldisweird.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626292304461574111.post-64857049416236431802013-06-20T00:38:19.202-04:002013-06-20T00:38:19.202-04:00wow, friend, i TOTALLY get this. that's how i ...wow, friend, i TOTALLY get this. that's how i used to view the gospel too. what a radical change we've gone through, and i hope i KEEP learning more and more about the gospel and how it transforms all aspects of life. thanks for linking with IP! e.Emily Wierenganoreply@blogger.com