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To: ottbmare

How can you say that our will is not coerced when we have the threat of eternal, ETERNAL, torture thrust at us. Are you saying that that does not constitute physical coercion? I don’t want to put words in your mouth. Is that what you are contending?


84 posted on 02/15/2014 12:25:12 PM PST by albionin (A gawn fit's aye gettin..)
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To: albionin
How can you say that our will is not coerced when we have the threat of eternal, ETERNAL, torture thrust at us. Are you saying that that does not constitute physical coercion? I don’t want to put words in your mouth. Is that what you are contending?

Nope.

If I offer you a Snickers bar and you say, "No, this other guy is offering me a stick of rat poison, I'd rather eat that," I am not coercing you. You are making a choice to eat the rat poison and die. I am not the one who is inflicting that agonizing death on you. It's not my fault that you will suffer and we will be parted forever because of your death. You made the choice. It's your fault. I did not coerce you.

God does not threaten you with eternal punishment, either. You make the choice to separate yourself from Him by your own stubborn refusal to accept His love.

102 posted on 02/15/2014 3:06:33 PM PST by ottbmare (the OTTB mare, now a proud Marine Mom)
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