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To: billbears

God gives everyone free will, which includes free will to do bad things. If Terri Schiavo is denied nutrition and hydration -- we're not talking about ventilators here -- and starves and dehydrates to death as a result, that does not mean that God willed her to die, any more than God willed that little girl in Florida to be kidnapped and murdered. Just because God allows bad things to happen does not mean He wants them to happen. Terri is severely disabled, but her health is sound EXCEPT for the fact that she is being starved and dehydrated to death. The idea that this is somehow "God's will" is perverse and not at all in keeping with Southern Baptist theology, about which I know a great deal. (Yes, i know your father is a minister, but, sorry, he's flat-out wrong about the Schiavo case. I suspect he's been misled about the facts, perhaps by the MSM. This is not a case about a brain dead person on life support.)


2,746 posted on 03/21/2005 8:39:12 PM PST by utahagen
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To: utahagen

Of course, these tragic cases are not "God's will." God sets the guideline for behavior, but sinful man fouls everything up. But we could say, I suppose, that these crimes in FL are the result of the fall of Adam and Eve.


2,764 posted on 03/21/2005 8:42:13 PM PST by Theodore R. (Will the GOP fiddle while Terri churns?)
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