Reply #35: No, he's got a pretty good sense of direction

[UncleSepp]

Although if he is lost, he won't admit it, and will drive endlessly in the wrong direction. Some things never change, but some things do.

More to the point, nobody means nobody. If there is to be forgiveness for any person, there has to be forgiveness for all people. If we are to forgo judgment of any one soul (since judgment of a soul is not reserved for us), we have to forgo judgment of all souls. That doesn't seem fair, but rightness and fairness are not righteousness and justice. The lost sheep found is treasured more than the sheep who never strayed. This hardly seems fair to the other sheep, does it? What then of the sheep who strayed further than any other? The one thought forever lost, who thought himself a wolf? When he again becomes a lamb, is that not to be valued?

That's what free will is like, and that's what mercy is like. Forgiveness and mercy are far from easy paths, when followed to their ends. It takes a great deal of strength to give up the illusion of power that eternal condemnation gives, or for that matter, eternal reward. In my belief, we are never done, never condemned forever, but also never saved.