BARREL OF MONKEYS: "GENESIS" in Reverse


I consider myself a Democrat. Been called a Socialist. Definitely a bleeding heart liberal.


As a child from a traditional southern family, playing Barrel of Monkeys on the floor, church every Sunday, doing well in public school, learning a trade; in every sense privileged .........


Comfortable in middle age, an avid news reader, on learning the tragic story of a full grown chimpanzee destroying the face of a woman who offered a toy, only trying to help it's owner coax her surrogate child back into his cage......


Today being confrontational, ribald, offensive, restless, rebellious.......


How did I get here from there?


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Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Satisfaction theory of atonement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Satisfaction theory of atonement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "St. Thomas Aquinas considers the atonement in the Summa Theologiae [8] into what is now the standard Catholic understanding of atonement. He wishes to explore the exact nature of sin, debt, punishment, and grace. In his section on man, he considers whether punishment is good and appropriate. He concludes that
punishment is a morally good response to sin
'Christ bore a satisfactory punishment, not for His, but for our sins,' and
substitution for another's sin is entirely possible.[9]
This is Aquinas' major difference with Anselm. Rather than seeing the debt as one of honor, he sees the debt as a moral injustice to be righted. However, it remains unclear whether the difference between Aquinas and Anselm is one of terminology or of substance."
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