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To: Cboldt
If I was as Terri, God's will be done, and neither me nor my caretakers believe that God's will is to off me via starvation. Bring on the slurry and diapers!!

Well, fatalism has its rewards, but let us both hope you never get to taste them.

My God made me in His image, capable of thought and action. God gave Adam instruction to subdue the created world and Paul explained that this means that we are not to give in to fatalism: 'What will be, will be." No, according to Paul, the spiritual body is always to take control over the physical body: "I do not run like a man running aimlessly; I do not fight like a man beating the air. No, I beat my body and make it my slave ..."

A master has life and death control over his slave. And why should we not. The body is perishable, the spirit is not. We must always give primacy to the imperishable, not preserving the perishable.

My point here is that a Christian is not a fatalist. There is no reason for a Christian to submit to evil which befalls him as though it came from God. It does not.

You are, of course, free to submit to the evil of the type which afflicted Terri as though it came from God and call it, daringly, "God's will." I will not. The evil which afflicted Terri came from Satan and God set her free. Those who helped deserve our commendation, not the endorsement of passive pagan fatalism which so dominates here.

263 posted on 04/10/2005 11:56:39 PM PDT by winstonchurchill
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To: winstonchurchill
Those who helped deserve our commendation, not the endorsement of passive pagan fatalism which so dominates here.

* plonk *

264 posted on 04/11/2005 3:18:29 AM PDT by Cboldt
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