[/media-credit]Tim Tebow is under attack for believing God will reward him while he is on this earth. ~ Photo by Eliza Marie Somers
So Gregg Doyel of CBS Sportsline is getting tons of email about this column on Tim Tebow.
I read the whole column and didn’t find a problem with it until the last three graphs:
Tebow has been a great billboard for Christianity — just as Muhammad Ali has been a great billboard for Islam, and Sandy Koufax a great billboard for Judaism — but that doesn’t mean he will be rewarded with a starting job in the NFL. Maybe deep inside his heart Tebow knows that, but from the outside it doesn’t look that way. From the outside it looks like Tebow equates his love for God in heaven with tangible rewards here on earth.
And that’s more than wrong.
It’s blasphemy.
What’s wrong with believing that you will reap riches if you obey God’s laws? The Bible, in numerous places, states that if you keep God’s commandments you will reap riches. Check out Proverbs 3 and 1 John 3:22-24 as just two examples.
And blasphemy? Tebow believes that God will reward him here on earth and Doyel calls it blasphemy? That’s just wrong.
Read the whole column, and then tell me what you think about it? Do you think Doyel crossed the line?
