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To: Gamecock
So does God creat people knowing they won't choose Christ?

Obviously.

The point here I already highlighted for you. God gives all a chance. Those who fail do so because of their own choices, not because of God's decision.

And now, before we take the next step, yes God could have chosen to create a different type of reality. So there is some essence to the claim that God chose this reality and all that entails within it.

I admit that the way that our freedom and God's creation interact is beyond our capacity to understand. But it is fallacious to reduce God to His Sovereign Will and exclude the other facets of His Ineffable Mystery.

It is clear to me and most others that we face choices every day and we act with a freedom to do good or evil. That all of these free choices somehow end up advancing God's Plan is beyong my pay grade to comprehend. All I know is that to say that our choices make no differences or are actually illusionary is a harmful philosophy.

426 posted on 06/09/2005 9:03:14 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave
Somethings are a mystery, but election is clearly taught in Scripture. The only mystery is why He choose any of us.
428 posted on 06/09/2005 1:55:16 PM PDT by Gamecock (We don't beat "nice" people to a bloody pulp, nail them onto a cross and then watch them suffocate.)
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