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To: Mrs. Don-o

It's good that we can disagree...but then again, it must be the way God wants it.


80 posted on 08/30/2006 12:46:57 AM PDT by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
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To: stuartcr
Dear stuartcr, it's not that He wants disagreeement, it's that he's very obstinate about human freedom.

The tendency of your argument lately with me (and others) seems to be that uyou want to make God the only free will in the Universe. The only one with the liberty to desire, or act. And therefore the only one with responsibility.

The astounding thing is that God did indeed make creatures with wills which could truly and effectively oppose his own. It is possible for us to oppose the will of God, and do it with consequences which are real, and indeed permanent.

As for resolving the paradox of human freedom and divine omniscience and oimnipotence: that's as impossible for YOU to do, as to look directly into your own eye.

82 posted on 08/30/2006 5:29:05 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Wow, Like, awesome, man.)
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