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To: Frumanchu
Is breathing a moral, volitional act?

It is if you want to live --- though it is also autonomic.

After this post I am going to lay down and rest for 5 minutes. Just because I am exercising my will and choosing to do so, does that make my 5 minute nap "a work"???

157 posted on 05/28/2007 8:25:26 AM PDT by Uncle Chip (TRUTH : Ignore it. Deride it. Allegorize it. Interpret it. But you can't ESCAPE it.)
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To: Uncle Chip
It is if you want to live --- though it is also autonomic.

It is indeed autonomic, and as a matter of course it is NOT a moral act. The act of breathing is not in and of itself a moral act of the will.

After this post I am going to lay down and rest for 5 minutes. Just because I am exercising my will and choosing to do so, does that make my 5 minute nap "a work"???

That depends entirely upon whether or not a moral inclination is the impetus for it. If you are doing so as the outworking of a moral choice you are facing, then indeed it is.

Perhaps, since you seem so intent on insisting faith is not a work, you could define for us exactly what a work IS.

158 posted on 05/28/2007 8:32:04 AM PDT by Frumanchu (Jerry Falwell: Now a Calvinist in Glory)
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