Peace to you as well, my friend. Jesus is the only way through which you can receive forgiveness. Macjordomo - A Macintosh Listserver by Michele Fuortes Was it not Anselm who said that he need not understand in order to believe, but to believe in order to understand. To understand means for something to have meaning for oneself. It was a dark day when faith and belief became synonymous, for faith is not so much a possession as it is an attitude, a way of seeing, not a system, but a posture, a way of entering far more like love than knowledge.
Forgiveness is ubiquitous, as is grace.
Those who are ignorant of this are far less responsible for whether they get the point or not than are those of us who think we understand it and don't tell them about it through our behavior. Wgat'sso great about forgiveness is that we are thereby freed from always having to be right. The fundies don't allow themselves that privilege, a privilege given by God's forgiveness, by the way. Conventional wisdom disparrages any form of forgiveness or acceptance that would lead to universalism. Just some scattered thoughts.