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To: Romulus
Will God allow something that is contrary to His plan?

If you worship something that deals in force and compulsion, the being you worship is something other than God.

You didn't tell me what you believe about Gods sovereignity?

All of us that pray believe that God can and does answer prayer. That means that He can and does cause things to happen. Will God allow something that is not part of His plan?

43 posted on 12/31/2001 7:50:50 PM PST by RnMomof7
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To: RnMomof7
Mom, think of the father in the parable of the prodigal son. He allows the son to make foolish and self-destructive choices, does he not?

Please consider the implications of belief in a god that compels all things. In what sence can a god be called a god of love, if it denies a generous measure of freedom to his children? Are we not informed that we are not slaves but heirs to the Kingdom? Have you considered what it means to live under a dispensation of grace that dispenses with that of Law?

Finally, I urge you to reconsider my point about bondage: compulsion is a form of bondage. Bondage ends ultimately in sin, and in death -- the ultimate bondage. It is not God's way thus to deal with us. The true God, whose Son is -- literally -- the Truth, promises to set us free in that truth. This is an experience of the Resurrected world, in which death has no dominion. It is impossible to reconcile the idea of a Resurrected, freedom-giving Savior, with that of a controlling, manipulative god that saves or damns according to arbitrary will, without respect to any human gesture of cooperation or rejection.

Any god that deals in compulsion is a god of death.

44 posted on 12/31/2001 8:15:18 PM PST by Romulus
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