Saturday, July 14, 2007

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In my last post I mentioned that our small group was doing a study on Galatians, using Tim Keller’s material. And, by the way, since Tim made a comment on my last post on this subject and I am hoping he’ll read this one, I want to point out up front that I’ll be jumping off from his material into my own ruminations and applications. What I say will be largely based on his material but I want to make sure he doesn’t get the blame if I stray from his own thoughts. In our study we came to an excursus on the story of the prodigal son and we saw how the story is really that of two lost brothers. We saw that the elder brother and the younger brother represent two different kinds of lostness. The younger brother represents the irreligious person and the elder represents the religious person. The outcome of both religion and irreligion are the same – lostness. The gospel is a “third way” of salvation that is neither through religion or irreligion. As our small group discussed this story, one passage from Keller’s study stood out in particular. The point? When the message of the gospel is clear, moral people tend to dislike it, while irreligious people are intrigued and attracted. The way to know that you are communicating and living the same gospel message as Jesus is that “younger brothers” are more attracted to you than elder brothers. This is balance transfer credit cards very searching test, because almost always, our churches are not like that.

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My colleague Professor Stone characterizes, in his recent post , the five Justices -- who are Roman Catholics access kurs - who were in the majority in Gonzales v. Carhart as "Faith-Based Justices." The claim, as I understand it, is that by failing to invalidate the federal partial-birth-abortion ban -- which, in Professor Stone's view, is clearly invalid under the Constitution, correctly understood -- the Justices are best seen as imposing sectarian beliefs on those who do not share those beliefs. In my view, though -- as I have suggested elsewhere -- this charge misses the mark. As Professor Stone observes, the five Justices in the majority concluded (as did Congress) that there are sound moral reasons for prohibiting partial-birth abortions even though, as he states, the law in question "does not prohibit any abortions." Congress endorsed former Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan's view that abortions done via this method are just "too close to infanticide" and that this proximity / resemblance morally justifies a prohibition on the procedure, and the Court declined to hold that this view was inadequate to justify the law. Now, let's put aside the merits of the "Moynihan view." Professor Stone's claim is, I think, that to follow Sen. Moynihan in this regard is to "fail[] to respect the fundamental difference between religious belief and morality. To be sure," he says, "this can be an elusive distinction, but in a society that values the separation of church and state, it is fundamental.

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