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To: stuartcr

God didn’t create sinners, he gave humans free will.

Not to get too theologian on this, but its a fudamental thing.

God, can do anything, he could have made us all obey without question, worship without thought.. exist in every moment and thought to further his glory, without ever being selfish or mean. However, what is that worth? Is a gift that is forced or demanded truly a gift? No, its not. A gift that’s demanded is no gift at all.

If the worship of God is to mean something it must be given freely, if the following of God’s teaching is to mean anything it must be given freely. In order for something to be given freely, the options must be there for it to be denied as well.

THere are pleanty of other theologians and scholars and writings that you can find on these topics and believe me when you explore them you will find, they make perfect sense. I hope you explore your questions.


68 posted on 07/16/2009 10:01:06 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: HamiltonJay

The other guy on this thread said He does.

If He made us that way, where we all obey, etc., why would we even think it was a gift, and not just the way it is? Who decided all this was a gift? Who decided that we have to worship God and that it has to mean something?

If we are incapable of understanding God, as many suggest, how is it possible that a theologian or scholar, could know anymore about God, than a non-theologian or non-scholar? How can someone study that which they are incapable of understanding? How would they know whether they were studying the right thing?


74 posted on 07/16/2009 10:15:58 AM PDT by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.)
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