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To: RinaseaofDs

How do you know it would not mean that? I believe His will is done all the time.


6 posted on 08/18/2009 10:56:26 AM PDT by stuartcr (When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.)
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To: stuartcr
You said:
“I believe His will is done all the time.”

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I must disagree at least in large part to this.

Gods will is that we have a choice to accept Him as God or not. To follow Him or not.

His will is never, ever evil. Any evil that is done on earth is not His will. He gives us freedom to do what we want. A mosquito is more like a machine than us. The machine doesn't make moral decisions about God it just does what it was designed to do. We on the other hand do make moral decisions.

God is indeed our Father. The Savior said that we, all of us are His (The Fathers) children. The difference between Christ the Savior of the world and us, all of the rest of us is that His earthly Father was not a man but was God. His mother was human, that makes Christ both human and God. It makes Him different than God the Father and it makes Him different than the rest of us.

Christ was a man and He was God. He was not God The Father. In Genesis we are told that Adam was in the image of God. In the same chapter we are told that Adam's son Able was in the image of Adam.

People often say when they see my grandson that he is my son, meaning that he looks just like me. I believe that when the Savior said that when you see Him you see The Father that is what he meant. (Please don't throw rocks at me.) I realize that I may have a rather unique view of this but it makes perfect sense to me.

One of The Saviors names is “Prince of Peace”. Why isn't it King of Peace? Because He is a prince. He said that He will inherit all that His Father has. He has told us to be “one” with him like He is one with His Father. Paul tells us when a man and woman marry they become one as The Father and Son are one. They become unified in purpose.

I think the Holy Trinity is three persons/Gods unified in purpose. One of the Three is God the Father, the other two serve Him.

If we love and serve The Savior then we too will become “one” with Him and serve God The Father.

7 posted on 08/18/2009 11:28:31 AM PDT by JAKraig (Surely my religion is at least as good as yours)
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To: stuartcr

Wouldn’t that mean, on occassion, that it is His will that you sin?


8 posted on 08/18/2009 11:33:13 AM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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