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Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe,
“The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone,’” and, “A stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall.” They stumble because they disobey the message—which is also what they were destined for. (I Peter 2:7-8) 

            That Corner Stone that both God and we find precious is the stone those who don't believe trip over then curse because they've skinned their knees and elbows. It's also the rock on which they stand in judgment of others, though they claim otherwise. They claim that they arrive at their ideas of justice from logic, reason, understanding and science. What they forget or ignore is the fact that the mind that created the universe is the same mind that set the rules thereof, so it's only natural that they would arrive at the same conclusions by observing and thinking. They are not the rules one finds by applying their theories of how the world works, but they are the rules one finds by applying the rules God set for the universe.
           Disregarding the rules and the Rule-giver has natural consequences. One stumbles. The passage today says this is what they were destined for. Sometimes people think "How cruel of God to destine people for destruction." Then we get on social media and proclaim that those who hurt women, children, or animals should be treated far worse than they treated the women, children or animals. During the same time on social media, someone declares a horrible fate for those of an opposing opinion, and we share and like because "they deserve it." We drive on the highway and someone screams by us, and we hope they get pulled over (or worse.)
        It's easy, when we look at Scripture, to assume that those who are described as "destined for" stumbling, or destruction or Hell don't deserve it.  It's also easy to pronounce a bad destiny for those who offend us using the exact same law (but only as far as we want to, and only when applied to someone else.)
 

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