Always Reforming

I wrote a  post about Aaron Hernandez a little while back, but due to new details , I'd like to expand on it.  If you go to the comments section of that article, you will find many cynical remarks from non-christians/atheists regarding the possibility of Aaron Hernandez being forgiven.  It's sort of your classic "Hitler-could've-been-saved-means-you're-wrong" argument.  Here were my three responses: 1) If there is no God, then murder is simply a part of the evolutionary process whereby the strong subdue the weak.  Survival of the fittest, right?  Murder would, in fact, not only being amoral, but it would actually be the greatest "good"!  It would be the epitome of what natural processes are accomplishing in our world.  In order to use the argument that grace makes our system morally nonsensical, you have to assume morality. 2) God can forgive anyone.  The point of grace is that you don't deserve it.  Jesus told his disciples that...

If you're a football fan, or even if you're not, you've probably heard of Aaron Hernandez, the troubled tight end from the New England Patriots.  After years of trouble with the law he finally found himself serving a life sentence for the murder of Odin Lloyd.  His recent suicide came as somewhat of a shock, considering that he had just been acquitted in a separate murder case.  Perhaps the most surprising detail of the reports is that he had "John 3:16" (it's not clear if he had the actual verse or just the address) scrawled on his forehead.  Here are my reflections on the tragic ending of this unfortunate tale. 1) Football isn't that important.   I love football.  I probably (okay, definitely) love it too much, but being good at football doesn't give you the right to do whatever you want.  Being a professional athlete does not render one above the law.  Hernandez seems to have discovered that immutable reality altogether too late.  He wa...