Cheryl Schatz

Paula #22,

Your challenge is worthy of consideration. I too would like to see the scriptures adequately explained.

gengwall #24,

You said:

Anarchy has nothing to do with the presence or absence of morality.

I beg to differ. In the dictionary online at dictionary.com meaning #1 and #4 have to do with morality.

1. a state of society without government or law.
2. confusion; chaos; disorder: Intellectual and moral anarchy followed his loss of faith.

This dictionary also lists the Greek anarchia as the origin which means lawlessness. Lawlessness has to do with what is right or wrong and it deals with morality.

A couple of weeks ago we met with the District Overseers for our denomination and they gave a teaching on the anarchy of determinism. What they said was, if there is determinism so that God commands everything to happen, then there can only be anarchy. From what they told us, anarchy has a lot to do with the absence of morality.