Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Remove God by removing consequences

No matter where you stand on the bail out of the financial markets, you must admit that what we are dealing with here is removing consequences. By definition, a bail out removes the obvious consequences of an action.

It seems to me that to remove consequences also removes God from our mind. He is a God of consequences. We can be sorry, we can be forgiven, but there are consequences to our actions. This reminds us of "right and wrong," and of a God who judges. Without consequences, God grows to be a fainter and fainter memory. If there are no consequences, there is no judgment, and we don't need saving, beyond being bailed out now and then.

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So the sequence is bad behavior-sorry-repent-forgiveness-consequence? Or is it bad behavior-consequence-sorry-repent-forgiveness? Does it matter so long as the outcome is the forgiveness? You are saying that consequences are tools for training and that the lesson goes unlearned when the negative result does not occur.

We teachers sometimes use the term "paver" to refer to a parent who won't allow Johnny to experience negative outcomes.

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