by Haruo » Thu Oct 06, 2011 11:56 am
Yeah, I haven't seen anybody here being "quick" to pronounce any particular set of child molesters "healed", "delivered" or "changed". Neither lepers nor leopards can change their spots; God can, and chooses to do so more often with lepers than with leopards. "Child molesters never change" is a subset of "Sinners never change", but we all know that God does change sinners. (And sometimes does so in this life, right before our eyes, or maybe even in our very persons.) God relieved me, at a critical juncture, of my desire (and even my willingness) to drink alcoholic beverages. Many of my fellow alcoholics do not receive that relief, and I do not know why. And although I hope that the relief will last forever and I will die sober, I know plenty of people who seemed to have "got it" yet subsequently, sometimes after more than a decade of sobriety, relapsed. And I assume, for lack of anything better to do, that pedophilia is in some ways analogous to alcoholism.
Ed, can you expand upon the reasons that would lead you to hire a convicted (former) child molester to work in your church? What about that case differs from the run of the mill?
Haruo = Leland Bryant Ross
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