THE EDITOR, Madam:
Recently, there have been recommendations encouraging the Church to be more proactive in society as a respected body. Without even any question of whether a Christian should be steering the political ship in any direction, is the question of their own moral competence.
For example, how does one separate the belief of a Christian from his practice? An instance of this is the belief that when an innocent person is murdered, they have somehow been transferred to a better place in heaven. If this is so, is the killer a kind of carousel that moves a person to the best and therefore, makes a them a doer of good? How brazen and outrageous!
Even worst, is the notion that an innocent child who has lost their life has been transported to heaven because God wanted another angel. This must be the crest of convoluted depravity, to implicate a God whose very essence is love, in such heinous corruption. (1 John4:8) Further, for Christians to believe that God the almighty would roast a person in hell’s fire for perpetuity for a finite blunder or sin he has committed, runs against all sense of justice even for a sinner.
The same God who loves the world so much and sent his only begotten son to save is preparing an everlasting furnace. Interesting, when many were offering their babies to Baal’s fiery furnace, God himself said that such a thing never even came up into his mind. (Jeremiah 19:5) Thus, can a Christian who believes those things, lift his head from such dire and fiery baptism, and separate himself from his own belief and stand with a clear conscience?
HOMER SYLVESTER
Elmsford, New York
