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To: Mrs. Don-o
QUOTE: The answer comes from Lesson Number One in the Catechism:
Q: Why did God make you?
A: God made me to know Him, to love Him, and to serve Him in this world, and to be happy with Him forever in heaven.
Every person is made by God with the desired end of the Beatific Vision. Every. Single. Person. Period.

God only made 2 people, Adam and Even, the rest of us were conceived in sin (Psalm 51:5) and born of natural descent (John 1:13). If God made you, he made you sinful, which is logically untenable. The notion that "God made me this way" is the source of much error today.

40 posted on 04/29/2014 3:54:51 PM PDT by jimmyray
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To: jimmyray
You're forgetting, I think, about Primary Cause and secondary causes. God made everything; He made Adam out of dirt; He made Eve out of Adam; He made you out of natural conception. He is the Primary Cause, and everything else He makes provision for (or permits) through secondary causes.

You may be forgetting, also, about the difference between God's ordaining will and His permissive will. He ordained that we should have the choice between right and wrong. He permits that to result in some wrong choices, but He did not ordain them.

63 posted on 04/29/2014 4:45:27 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle ...against the wickedness and snares of the devil.")
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