• Timothy Keller In His Marvelous Book:

  Contributed by Wayne Presnell on Feb 10, 2009 (message contributor)

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  Tags:  Judgment, Sin General

  Denomination: Baptist

Timothy Keller in his marvelous book: “The Reason for God,” answers the skeptic’s question: “Because Christians think there are consequences to sin… including judgment… does that make them narrow minded?”

He uses this analogy: “Imagine two people arguing over the nature of a cookie. Jack thinks the cookie is poison, and Jill thinks it is not. Jack thinks Jill’s mistaken view of cookie will send her to the hospital or worse. Jill thinks Jack’s mistaken view of the cookie will keep him from having a fine dessert. Is Jack more narrow-minded than Jill just because he thinks the consequences are more dire? I don’t believe anyone would think so. Christians, therefore, aren’t more narrow because they think wrong thinking and behavior have eternal effects.

- Timothy Keller (The Reason For God, pp. 80-81.)