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To: kosta50

You can’t say you free will and then say that it’s limited. Why did God put the tree in the Garden anyway if He knew man would sin?


15,674 posted on 06/11/2007 3:28:45 PM PDT by HarleyD
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To: HarleyD; Kolokotronis; stfassisi; .30Carbine; GoLightly
You can’t say you free will and then say that it’s limited

Sure you can. No one said our free will is limitless. That would be chaos. We are free to do everything but sin. In fact, we are free to sin too, but that comes with consequences.

Only God is infinitely free. But He is limitless, so His freedom is fitting His nature; we are finite and out freedom is finite, in harmony with our nature.

Why did God put the tree in the Garden anyway if He knew man would sin?

To remind us that our freedom is not without limits.

15,675 posted on 06/11/2007 6:12:18 PM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: HarleyD
You can’t say you free will and then say that it’s limited.

Why not? The exercise of freedom is itself a kind of limitation. Exercising my freedom to spend my money on a Ferrari means I can't get a Maserati -- not this week, anyway .....

I am free to marry the boss-lady or somebody else. I am not free to marry both. And if I never get married I am not free to have children legitimately. And so forth.

Or am I wrong as usual?

15,688 posted on 06/19/2007 8:09:09 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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