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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.

Yes, your daughter will be part of everything you and your wife have given her. But she is EVERYTHING IN TOTAL that God has made her, as are my sons.

And this is a wonderfully comforting thought. God keeps the time of every beat of their hearts, and nothing can happen to any of them that is not His will.

Now at the same time, I believe God wills me to be the most restrictive, powerful, demanding parent my kids have ever encountered, and that's just their tough luck. 8~)

But God is more than you or me.

Thank you. You have a wonderful Easter, too.