tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9031852996869768738.post6193194913232509588..comments2024-03-28T08:30:20.260+01:00Comments on The Ugley Vicar: Clarifying Wright - maybe!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03590979027426082714noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9031852996869768738.post-43138709892656263582011-03-21T10:18:25.582+01:002011-03-21T10:18:25.582+01:00mbt shoes is the mbt masai shoes-the physiological...<a href="http://www.cheapestmbt.com/" rel="nofollow">mbt</a> shoes is the mbt masai shoes-the physiological mbt footwear.MBT Shoes can make you enjoy a unique mbt chapa experience of walking .Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10449533222775875066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9031852996869768738.post-1637724908914202862010-11-29T13:04:24.879+01:002010-11-29T13:04:24.879+01:00I'm not sure which is now going to be the '...I'm not sure which is now going to be the 'live' discussion - so I've posted the following on all three threads!<br /><br />Maybe if passports had been around, Paul would have found it easier to explain things? Or maybe people wouldn't have misunderstood him? Or maybe not? E.G.:<br /><br />As they become an 'alien in a foreign land' a Christian is, metaphorically speaking, given a passport to their homeland by God when they are brought to faith in Jesus Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit working within them. That doesn't mean that they will live by the laws of that land, although they will naturally want to do so. It doesn't even mean that if they don't then the passport will be taken away. It simply means they have the permanent right of entry to that new homeland (which has been freely given them).<br /><br />However, as citizens of that new homeland they will do their utmost to respect and love the Lord and ruler of that land, and to follow the laws of that land - on many occasions they will fail, but without penalty. The passport remains theirs despite such failings. But, again, because the ruler of that new land means so much to them, they will show their respect and love for the land and its ruler and so they will naturally express sorrow for their failure to live by its laws.<br /><br />In all this they remain citizens of this new land, under the leadership of its Lord and ruler. At no point does anything they do or do not do make any difference to their citizenship.Rev Dominicnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9031852996869768738.post-69417463525561228092010-11-28T23:43:36.825+01:002010-11-28T23:43:36.825+01:00Those following this discussion might like to see ...Those following this discussion might like to see an update on the overall topic here: http://ugleyvicar.blogspot.com/2010/11/alister-mcgrath-on-meaning-of.htmlAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03590979027426082714noreply@blogger.com