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To: Mrs. Don-o

yes. I hate that the depraved get to exercise their “free will” I feel like a puppet unable to go against anything God wants and having to put up with all kinds of suffering and watch others struggle because of the depraved choices of others.

I would rather be in the Garden of Eden before the apple and not have to contend with free will.


6 posted on 04/14/2012 4:05:06 PM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: yldstrk

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts: nor your ways My ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are exalted above the earth, so are My ways exalted above your ways, and My thoughts above your thoughts.” Isaias 55:8-9


7 posted on 04/14/2012 7:01:40 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
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To: yldstrk

In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve had free will, and used it correctly-— with loving intelligence-— (until they sinned). Jesus Christ also had free will and used it with loving intelligence. Free will isn’t the problem. It makes loving intelligence possible.

Sin is the problem.

We can look forward to heaven, where all will be well. We can also strive to see that God’s will is done “on earth as it is in heaven.”


10 posted on 04/15/2012 4:48:14 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("God bless the child that's got his own." Billie Holiday / Arthur Herzog Jr)
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