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To: Aquinasfan
The central problem with libertarianism is that God doesn't give anyone the "right" to do anything intrinsically evil.

No, but He sure has provided the opportunity.

I believe that's known as "freedom", something that was granted to Adam and Eve in the Garden, if you'll recall. God provided them the opportunity in the form of access to the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Not only that, He actually permitted temptation to be provided in the form of a certain being who was cast out of Heaven. Talk about your Grand Conspiracy Theories: God actually "permitted" the fall of Adam. But then again, maybe the problem was simply that God is so weak that He is incapable of keeping fallen angels from invading certain locations, and incapable of creating beings that are not subject to temptation.

Freedom has a cost. That cost was the reason why a Redeemer was sent to Earth. God apparently feels that the principle of freedom was worth the price of sacrificing a Redeemer.

244 posted on 02/01/2002 12:25:13 PM PST by CubicleGuy
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To: CubicleGuy
Beautifully put. My cube got brighter reading that, CG.
247 posted on 02/01/2002 12:32:03 PM PST by L,TOWM
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