PEACE as Faust

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 04 Oct 2002, 20:40 · from urth-v0210.mbox · original

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From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <ddanehy at siebel.com>
Subject: RE: (urth) PEACE as Faust
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 13:40:28 -0700
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Roy C. wrote ...

> I agree that Weer isn't El Diablo. But how is it that Olivia=20
> gets to go to heaven?=20

The usual method is called "repentance."

> She didn't strike me as even a nice person, much less as
> worthy of eternal reward. Before marriage she was a fornicator;
> afterwards an adulteress.

Has nothing to do with the case -- the whole point (well, _a_
major point) of Christianity in general, and Catholicism in=20
particular, is that _everyone_ is a sinner, but that doesn't=20
stop you from being saved -- in fact it's why you need to be=20
saved. And, because everyone's a sinner, nobody is "worse" than=20
anyone else. So you just sort of have to accept what you are, be
sorry for what you've done, and try to do better with God's help,=20
and that's pretty much the deal. So being "not nice," "a=20
fornicator," "an adulteress" (thank you for using these terms so
accurately, btw) really wouldn't stop her. Might mean some=20
Purgatory, but that's a highly-undefined term.

--Blattid

--=20

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