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To: circlecity

God knows the future, He knows what you’re free-will choices will be. He creates you knowing you will choose to do something that will send you to hell for eternity. Yet He loves you. Please explain this logically.


40 posted on 05/17/2011 10:36:43 AM PDT by stuartcr ("Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.")
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To: stuartcr
"God knows the future, He knows what you’re free-will choices will be. He creates you knowing you will choose to do something that will send you to hell for eternity. Yet He loves you. Please explain this logically."

You changed subjects from the existence of God to the accuracy of what the Bible tells us about God. Whether God exists is a different question from what all his attributes are, once we establish he does exist. Particularly when those attributes involve his motives, design and purpose. Since God is, by definition, infinite it is impossible for finite creatures such as us to criticize God on the basis of contradictions. We don't know a fraction of what God knows and thus we can never know all the variables which may explain a seeming inconsistency. It is certainly logical that God, in the form of the Holy Spirit, could have very good reasons for not giving us the information to resolve what appear as contradictions. It is interesting that the seeming contradiction you try to point out, moral accountability versus providence, involve the two variables absolutely necessary to provide objective meaning and ethics in life.

43 posted on 05/17/2011 1:29:25 PM PDT by circlecity (')
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To: stuartcr
God knows the future, He knows what you’re free-will choices will be. He creates you knowing you will choose to do something that will send you to hell for eternity. Yet He loves you. Please explain this logically.

Why does this seem illogical to you? Aquinas defined "love" as the decision to pursue the authentic good of another. God certainly wills the authentic good of each one of us. Part of that "authentic good" is the freedom of each of us to pursue that which is not authentically good for us, even up to and including the ultimate "un-good" of hell.

45 posted on 05/17/2011 8:37:22 PM PDT by Campion ("Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies when they become fashions." -- GKC)
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