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To: HarleyD; Dr. Eckleburg; jo kus; Agrarian; kosta50; annalex
Men always have a will to do what they want. They just will to do the things that are wrong. God permits sin to take place for His divine purpose. He ordained the fall of Adam so He must have ordained all of this.(emphasis added)

Yes, exactly! One counter-question would be: "Could Adam have used his free will and chosen not to sin?" That is a thicket, isn't it? Of course if he COULD have and did make that choice, then there never would have been a need for Christianity. OTOH, God already knew Adam's choice, and created him exactly as He did, anyway.

Hmmm. It seems to me that if God has the power to create anyone or anything just as He pleases, and He chose to create Adam as He did, already knowing what Adam was going to do, then it must be that it pleased God, for His eternal purposes, that everything that Adam did, actually happened. Sounds like an ordination to me. :)

3,259 posted on 03/06/2006 1:41:02 AM PST by Forest Keeper
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To: Forest Keeper; HarleyD; Dr. Eckleburg; jo kus; Agrarian; kosta50
He ordained the fall of Adam

Where is that in the Scripture?

3,270 posted on 03/06/2006 7:27:26 AM PST by annalex
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