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To: kosta50; Alamo-Girl; hosepipe; betty boop; .30Carbine; Quix; adiaireton8
For God everything is possible. Outcomes are His creation, not His choice. Choices are in the realm of uncertainty. Whatever God does it is certain. He doesn't choose; He creates.

Alright, I'll try this from a different angle. In light of "God does not make choices", how is it determined who gets into Heaven? Do we pass a test and then God is obligated to let us in?

In addition, I assume your position is that Jesus Christ did NOT choose to die for us on the cross. Since you are such a strong proponent of human free will, I find it odd that you are denying free will to God. If God does not choose, then He does not have free will.

15,538 posted on 06/05/2007 6:16:39 PM PDT by Forest Keeper (It is a joy to me to know that God had my number, before He created numbers.)
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To: Forest Keeper; Alamo-Girl; betty boop; kosta50
[.. In light of "God does not make choices", how is it determined who gets into Heaven? Do we pass a test and then God is obligated to let us in? ..]

Sounds like a Mechanical God.. a Robot.. A Robotic God..
Like the God of the Borg.. Sin or Not, Resistence is futile you will be assimilated..

15,540 posted on 06/05/2007 6:49:30 PM PDT by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole....)
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To: Forest Keeper; Alamo-Girl; hosepipe; betty boop; .30Carbine; Quix; adiaireton8
In light of "God does not make choices", how is it determined who gets into Heaven?

We don't know (does He tell us?), but He is not driven by possibilities, or uncertainties is He?

Do we pass a test and then God is obligated to let us in?

No, because that would subject God to necessity. Anyway, He would already know our test scores before we took the test, so it would not be a choice, would it? :)

In addition, I assume your position is that Jesus Christ did NOT choose to die for us on the cross

Was there a choice or just His will? He willed Himself to die; He didn't "choose" to die as if there was an alternative, was there?

I find it odd that you are denying free will to God

Not His will, only His need to choose. To will something is not necessarily the same to choose. When God said "Let there be light" was He choosing? Or was He willing? Or when He said "Let Us make man in Our image and likeness..." was He choosing or willing?

A choice requires a decision and a decision requires a will. Clearly, a decision and a choice are subordinate to will. God's will is not subordinate to anything.

15,543 posted on 06/05/2007 7:06:59 PM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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