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From: david@ssc-vax.UUCP (David Norris)
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Subject: Re: "Re: A Belated Reply to Paul Dubuc [from - (nf)"
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Date: Mon, 31-Oct-83 11:40:19 EST
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I'd like to follow up on D. Plank's (sorry if I spelled it wrong) article
which appeared here.

He stated something about Christians believing non-Christians having no
morals.  I certainly believe ALL people have a sense of morals, although
we might disagree on the source of that moral sense.  This, however,
is not the focus or the essence of Christianity.  The Bible tells us that
God has written his law into all men's hearts.  Man basically knows what is
good and evil.  Of course, the further away from God a man is, the less he
will see the evil that is within him.  The focus of Christianity is that
while man knows what is right and wrong, somewhere, sometime he misses the
mark and does something he knows to be wrong, and then proceeds to have a
"guilty conscience" about it (some people call this the conviction of the
Holy Spirit).  Too much of this sort of thing numbs a mans mind to the
bad feeling he gets after doing something wrong.
Breaking this moral law separates Man from God and was the reason God sent
his Son into our world.  The fact that a man can still feel a sense of
wrongdoing is evidence that God has not given up on him.