Who Said That?

"God created us in His own image to have an abundant life. He did not make us as robots to automatically love and obey Him. God gave us a will and a freedom of choice.  We chose to disobey God and go our own willful way. We still make this choice today. This results in separation from God."

Leave your guess in the comments section below.  Please, no google searches or cheating.  Answer to follow in one week.

Update on Saturday, February 13, 2010 at 05:41PM by Kim Riddlebarger

This is "Step Two" of the "Steps to Peace" posted on the website of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.  This is about as watered down as it gets.  Sin "lite."

Comments

[inwoolee]

Joel Osteen?

[Adam]

Norman Geisler

[David]

Bill Bright?

[Stephen Sutton]

William P. Young, author of "The Shack"

["lee n. field"]

How many cliche's can you cram into five short sentences? It's been a while, is this from the "Four Spiritual Laws" tract?

[Mark]

This is from the "Peace With God" tract.

[Mark Pertuit]

Someone wise -- it's all true!

[dsanger]

Chuck Smith of Calvary Chapel?

[Howie]

If I didn't know better, I would say you have been reading the last email I got from my Dad! This one is tough, it could be almost anybody... Is it from the study notes in a Bible?

[Charles S]

Billy Graham

[Lloyd I. Cadle]

Adam beat me to it, Norman Geisler.

[Timinator]

Joel Osteen

[Mark]

Billy Graham

["lee n. field"]

"How many cliche's can you cram into five short sentences? It's been a while, is this from the "Four Spiritual Laws" tract? "

I should clarify. As far as it goes, what Kim's quote says is true, but the emphasis is not where I would like to see it. Should we really say we're made for "an abundant life"?

I see it going either to a discussion of free will that will end up with the fallen descendants of Adam being "only mostly dead", or to a tract written from the same assumption.

[Sean]

I'm surprised no one has guessed Rick Warren yet. So I will - Rick Warren.

[Stephen]

I could have said every word in a youth talk, I fear. And as has been pointed out, it's all true (Eden was abundant life; freedom of the will as part of the Imago Dei). It's just that "separation from God" isn't quite "brings us under God's wrath" and the statement opens the door to denying original sin. Or am I losing the plot? I'm going to really take a risk - it was Kim Riddlebarger at some previous stage in his career.