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To: D-fendr; Blogger
It's, I dunno how else to describe it but capricious and cruel, a world without meaning

It renders sin meaningless too. Robots cannot sin. The way Protestants describe it, I have visions of the "saved" walking around with God's tractor beams attached to their foreheads, leading them around like zombies.

If they do good, it's because God made them do good; if they sin, well, God made them do that too. It's a masochistic kind of love they exhibit in my opinion. How can you love someone like that?

For God made a man and a woman, happy and content and then He made them disobey so that he can punish them and all their generations in order to have an excuse to sacrifice His own Son for His wounded "pride."

Calvinism believes it was all choreographed by none other than God, of course. All the suffering is God-made by their theology, although they deny it (then again, abused people deny violence too; it's called repression). It really makes you wonder of the mindset that is attracted to that kind of thinking.

3,601 posted on 01/02/2007 9:17:39 PM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50

I can't see the theology leading to any other conclusion about God, as I said.

I do think, however, I am finally seeing how you get there given the underlying assumption of Sola Scriptura. I understand that other adherents arrive at different conclusions, but I'm beginning to see how it would lead to predestination in particular.


3,605 posted on 01/02/2007 9:25:43 PM PST by D-fendr
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