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Tom
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Posted 9/23/2009 1:35 PM (GMT -6)

I guess it's been out for a few weeks. Not sure. But I just found out. It's Robin Parry (a UK based scholar):

theologicalscribbles.blogspot.com/

Tom

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Posted 9/23/2009 4:37 PM (GMT -6)

From that site: Whatever hell is we must not suppose that it is the action of justice as opposed to love. It is, they think, an act of severe mercy – of “holy love.”

JEFF: I agree. I think judgment is nothing more than the way God motivates people unto right-relating. It is about motivating humans just as State action is supposed to. In that sense, judgment is not exactly analogous to parental discipline in the way God's discipline of us is, but it is analogous to parental discipline to some degree. For we shall ALL stand before the judgment seat of Christ and RECEIVE for what we have done, whether good OR EVIL. (2 Cor.)

I think we can say that parental discipline is MORE aimed at the good of the child, whereas judgment is MORE aimed at the good of the community. And yet both effects are attained to some degree by both modes of motivation.

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