Biodiversity Research Institute: Loons

Small, nonprofit group dedicated to progressive environmental research and education. Specialty is avian (bird) studies, and aquatic toxicology with a focus on the loon.

Coastal Conservation Association of Maine

An organization of avid recreational fishermen, who have banded together to address conservation issues. News, events, links.

Echo Lake Association

Property owners and other parties interested in lake quality in Fayette, Mt Vernon, and Readfield.

Environmental Protection Agency Region 1: Superfund Site Index

Places targeted in Maine for government sponsored toxic waste cleanup.

Forest Ecology Network

Mission is to protect, preserve, and defend the native forest environment of Maine through public awareness, grassroots citizen activism, and education.

Friends of Hog Island

Non-profit dedicated to the preservation of the Audubon Camp on Hog Island and the support and enhancement of its educational goals.

Friends of Schoodic

A non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the natural environment of the Schoodic District of Acadia National Park..

Gulf of Maine Council

Promotes stewardship activities in the Gulf of Maine and its watershed, to enhance environmental quality and secure resource use for all generations.

Humboldt Field Research Institute

Institute for the study of natural history in Maine.

Lakes Environmental Association

A private, non-profit organization founded in Naples to protect the water quality and watersheds of the Sebago-Long Lake Region. Covers the towns of Bridgton, Denmark, Harrison, Naples, Sweden, Waterford and Sebago Lake.

on Feb 11, 2005, at 1:58 pm gpat...@bayou.com wrote:

>>> Tracy Hall wrote:



>> I believe that Jesus was the only exception. The saints,
>> including Job and others to whom the scriptures refer
>> as "perfect of heart," "perfect in their generation,"
>> etc., surely sinned at some point in their life.

> OK, but as for me, I will stick with the story of Job as
> told in scripture. If the author of the book of Job had wanted
> us to think that Job sinned, he would not have said twice
> that Job was perfect, upright and unlike any other person
> on earth. Why not just accept the story of Job as is? I look
> at it this way: If scripture seems to not be compatible with
> doctrine, rather than modify scripture, it is better
> [to] modify doctrine.

I do believe that Job was perfect, upright, and unlike any
other person *at the time of the scriptural account.* But
Paul says that all [but Christ] have sinned. (Rom. 3:10,
23; 5:12)

I don't want to defend any doctrine, but I do seek for
harmony in the scriptures. So it seems to me, If all have
sinned at some point in their lives, then Job must have
committed some kind of sin earlier in his life. Then, prior
to our joining his story, Job must have exercised faith in
Christ, repented of his sins, and been sanctified through the
Gospel, thereby becoming of "good report." (Heb. 11)

Whatever Job's condition was long before we join his
story, surely the grace of Christ was sufficient for him,
as it was for Paul, the confessed sinner. (2 Cor. 12: 9)


Tracy Hall
Hthalljr'gmail'com

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Romans 5:12-14 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one
man, and death through sin, and in this way death came. Therefore,
just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin,
and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned for before
the law was given, sin was in the world. But sin is not taken into
account when there is no law. Nevertheless, death reigned from the
time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by
breaking a command, as did Adam, who was a pattern of the one to come.

Seems like righteousness and being sinless are not the same.

Didn't Abraham sleep with his wife's servant, would that be
fornication?

And didn't he lie to the Pharoh, telling the Pharoh his wife was his
sister?

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