Submitted by Visitor (not verified) on Tue, 2011-11-01 10:11.
Man is sinful from birth. If left to our own devices, without Christ, we are a slave to sin or as the billboard announces a “slave to Satan.” By “free thinker,” the Pastor is presumably referring to someone who is not guided by scripture or the Holy Spirit, but instead considers himself an autonomous free agent and is left in their sin.
This makes sense from a Christian theological perspective, but no doubt seems foolish to non-Christians.
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And the Lord had caused the cursing to come upon them, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity. For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them
— 2 Nephi 5:21, Book of Mormon, on the "curse of blackness"
Man is sinful from birth. If left to our own devices, without Christ, we are a slave to sin or as the billboard announces a “slave to Satan.” By “free thinker,” the Pastor is presumably referring to someone who is not guided by scripture or the Holy Spirit, but instead considers himself an autonomous free agent and is left in their sin.
This makes sense from a Christian theological perspective, but no doubt seems foolish to non-Christians.