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To: Dr. Eckleburg
Christians might not worry, but they might be a bit miffed to find out that all creation was just a sophisticated virtual reality machine populated with avatars.

Besides if I were a devout Calvinist (and I somehow can't remember Calvin's name coming up anywhere in the Bible ... but let that pass) then I would worry or not worry based on what God had pre-ordained from all time.

So to answer your question (from a Calvinist perspective): some people will worry and some people won't worry just cuz God determined that they would or would not worry. And because God is perfect and His creation is perfect people will only worry or will only not worry at those precise instances in time when God's perfection demands it.

Obviously being puny unimportant avatars we are completely incapable of understanding why it is that some people worry and some don't and that some people worry sometimes, but don't worry other times. We don't have a clue as to how this fits into God's perfect plan for all of humanity.

But from a non-Calvinist point of view people can freely choose to worry or not as they please. And having free independent beings in a universe all of a sudden makes it a much more interesting place that is more worthy of an almighty God, and not just a mere computer gamer.

72 posted on 06/09/2009 11:39:20 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (The cosmos is about the smallest hole a man can stick his head in. - Chesterton)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
But from a non-Calvinist point of view people can freely choose to worry or not as they please.

Is the natural man "free" to choose righteousness?

And having free independent beings in a universe all of a sudden makes it a much more interesting place that is more worthy of an almighty God

Worthy? You believe fallen man is "worthy" of God?

Read Romans.

75 posted on 06/09/2009 12:05:08 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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