there are non-christians on this list i know, but regardless of everyones
beliefs, it is the same for the disabled as for the able bodied.

-----Original Message-----
From: Sam Eden [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Saturday, August 14, 1999 7:22 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Of Disability and Eternity


Greetings,

I will be away from my email for about a weerk, beginning tomorrrow, should
there be  anyone writing me directly then.
i just wanted to take a moment to emphasize that I know some believe all
disabled people will heasd heavenward, I do nort subscribe to that thesis.
As my freind  Dr. Marlene Huff, who also uses a wheerlchair says " We are
all of us human before we are hasndicaapped. Implicit in that is a capacity
for good juxtaposed with a likew capacxity for evil. Remember all those deaf
workers ffrom Mexico found in servitude in the LA garmentdistrictn last
year? The ringleaderwho supplied the workers was himself deaf! he wascthe
only one to tyurn a profit amongst the human chattel. And thatr ius but one
example, one variation of mans continuing inhumanity  to man contoinuing
whenone is obliged to cope with an outward physical impairrment.
all of you reading this coulkd name others.
What wearies me is that too many folks in church see inability before they
see ability andb grace a person to be done for rather than a person to
worship with. Are attitudes among parishioners any betteer otr any different
on the other side of the Atlantic!
To sum up, I belireve with the Anglican expatriate John Wesley that all men
can be saved, but not all men will be saved!

Blessings

Sam Eden
Asbury Theological Seminary
SPO 295  204 NORTH LEXINGTON AVENUE
WILMORE,KY. 40390
hEBREWS 7:14-16
FOR OUR SALVATION IS NOT  ON THE BASIS OF PHYSICAL REQUIRERMENT, BUT RATHER
BYN THE POWER OF AN INDESTRUCTIBLE LIFE  (IN CHRIST JESUS)           .......