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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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To: Campion

Very convenient, thanks


47 posted on 05/18/2011 12:42:44 PM PDT by stuartcr ("Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.")
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