A Bible scholar, he ain't!

I don't know what Thom Hunter of Dallas is, but a Bible scholar, he ain't! He says Muslims are not bound for hell -- "they are regenerated children of God as surely as the most devout Christian who ever lived."

Guess he missed it when Jesus said, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No man cometh unto the Father but by me." And when He said, "He that believeth not is condemned already because he hath not believed on the name of the only begotten Son of God." That means that a Muslim, who rejects the deity of Jesus, is not going to Heaven.

Thom says, "The love of God is manifest in all his children." While I can agree to a degree with that statement, I can't agree with it in the way Thom means it. He thinks all of us are God's children, and that's not true. Many people are "of your father the Devil." Those "regenerated" Muslims who flew those planes into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center come immediately to mind. Lots of love there, wasn't there?

Then Thom gives us this rambling bit of theology: "The love of justice, truth, mercy and one's fellow creatures is evidence of the vital inner life of God that is present and working in all his children, regardless of what they say they believe or even if they don't believe anything at all." Does he means that atheists are going to heaven whether they like it or not? I just really don't have a clue what he means.

And there's another thing I really don't have a clue about -- just why did the newspaper choose to print this silly drivel?

"No sin in loving God." The Dallas Morning News; September 21, 2010; p. 16A.