The good man that turned bad out of necessity

[Riven]

You posted a photograph of dead Holocaust victims on Monday evening (post #203). I’d like for you to look at it with me again.

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These are people in a foreign land. You don’t know any of them. Neither do I.

The photograph caused made me to feel something. I made the assumption at the time that the photograph also caused you to feel something.

Did you post the photo knowing at the time that it didn’t make you feel something for them, thinking only that it would cause me to feel something?

No. It was too illustrate what my point that sometimes one must do what is necessary for the greater good, regardless of religious belief.

If the photo of the dead people did make you feel something, why did the photos of suffering living people - innocent children, at that - not cause you to feel anything?

Because they're still alive, and everybody suffers in one way or another.

I’m reconsidering my answer to your question. Why did you ask me?

I was curious.

Do you think that you have? Are you concerned that you may have?

No. It wasn't something I chose. It was a choice made for me during my formative years.

Are you wanting to know if a person who has seared their conscience can be saved?

No.

 

[Matthias]

No. It wasn't something I chose. It was a choice made for me during my formative years.

That’s the answer to your question. A person with a seared conscience cannot enter the kingdom of God with a seared conscience.