This past week, I had the opportunity to have a discussion with someone who had some challenges with some implications of a message I recently posted online.

It was a discussion about sin and the cross, and for that individual, my understanding of both, according to him, had strayed a wee bit too far. Although differing views on even the atonement is okay, he took the opportunity to try to convict me of the errors of my ways.

He tried to change my mind and my belief in as loving and respectful a way possible.   Or maybe I should say, as loving as possible when you believed the other person to be dead wrong and destroying your faith.

Anyways, let me try to summarize his position.
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