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Remember the time, not so long ago, when members of the Roman Catholic Church were advised through Vatican Council II that some of the traditional rules of the church were being changed. One pattern change was dietary, that on most Fridays Roman Christians could now eat meat, rather than keeping the restriction of fish and eggs. Members of the Roman Church were surprised; some were quite disturbed. At the time of the announced change, a cartoon appeared in a Roman Catholic paper. The cartoon featured a very nervous and upset young priest running in to see his pastor. Almost in panic he asked, "What are we going to do with all those people we sent to hell for eating meat on Friday?" The pastor was a wise man. He sat quietly, smiled, and said to the young priest: "What makes you think God always does everything we tell him to do?" God is not bound to the human ordinances by which we administer justice. God has saved his people! A miracle of mercy!
-- Anton
Remember the time, not so long ago, when members of the Roman Catholic Church were advised through Vatican Council II that some of the traditional rules of the church were being changed. One pattern change was dietary, that on most Fridays Roman Christians could now eat meat, rather than keeping the restriction of fish and eggs. Members of the Roman Church were surprised; some were quite disturbed. At the time of the announced change, a cartoon appeared in a Roman Catholic paper. The cartoon featured a very nervous and upset young priest running in to see his pastor. Almost in panic he asked, "What are we going to do with all those people we sent to hell for eating meat on Friday?" The pastor was a wise man. He sat quietly, smiled, and said to the young priest: "What makes you think God always does everything we tell him to do?" God is not bound to the human ordinances by which we administer justice. God has saved his people! A miracle of mercy!
-- Anton
