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To: Gamecock
Sounds like her "free will" was violated.

Nah. She eventually came to understand that that there is a certain inevitability. I for one, don't like inevitability and the resignation that one is powerless to stop it. I think that is what she is lamenting here, was that she was no longer able to resist the inevitable.

After dating Antony Weiner, and other godless filth, she has turned here life to god. Now we shall see how long she remains a democRAT.

25 posted on 07/14/2013 6:21:32 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: Ouderkirk

“I think that is what she is lamenting here, was that she was no longer able to resist the inevitable.”

“the inevitable” = “irresistible grace”.


60 posted on 07/14/2013 9:51:44 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (I feel much better since I gave up hope.)
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To: Ouderkirk
I for one, don't like inevitability and the resignation that one is powerless to stop it.

IMHO...

People do not know what God has foreordained. From our perspective, we have no idea what tomorrow will bring.

We could receive a phone call which leads to our becoming wealthy. Or a piano could fall on our head as we walk out of a building.

Not knowing the future, we therefore have no excuse to not live according to God's Word and give a (theoretical) 100% effort.

But it is to our shame that in our supreme arrogance we think God is powerless over our little puny "decisions" we make about what will or not will happen in the future. He "sort of" participates, he participates "once in a while", he "helps things along"; all such phrases are logically inconsistent, since the Creator has power over the creation, end of story.
65 posted on 07/14/2013 10:12:12 AM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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