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But I DID expect you to equate the entire human race with your daughter, and God with you.

I've come to expect the massive limitations you put on God.

Man/woman as the disobediant child -- who eventually grows up, all on her own, to work her salvation.

I used to believe like you, Dave. Then I went back to the Bible and found out that God is actually more than my father, your father, Santa Claus, Uncle Sam or Mother Earth.

All the words are there in front of you. I wish you God's guidance in reading them.

Gotta go.

But I DID expect you to equate the entire human race with your daughter, and God with you.

I've been confusing myself with God around here for a long time. LOL

Seriously, this is the relationship and model that God offers us. Remember, God could have appeard Incarnate any way He wanted, or even brought about our salvation some other way. But He wanted to emphasize that Father/Son relationship.

Man/woman as the disobediant child -- who eventually grows up, all on her own, to work her salvation.

Again, you are off base. the entire point of a loving parent is that you rchild does not grow up "all on her own." What she will take out into the world is a byproduct of what I put into my relationship with her. That's the model of grace. She will be me and my wife and the others who touch her.

Gotta go.

Have a blessed Easter.