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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Your idea that God only gives us limited choices is also nowhere to be found. Do you have anything in scripture that would support this?

I'm standing on the top of a tall building. I want to get to the top of another building. I choose to fly across. There is much of God that is not addressed by scripture.

142 posted on 09/18/2003 8:03:23 AM PDT by William Terrell (Individuals can exist without government but government can't exist without individuals.)
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To: William Terrell
Sure. But the main parts are covered either directly or indirectly.

Let's look at Mark 10:17-22

17 Now as He was going out on the road, one came running, knelt before Him, and asked Him, "Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?"
18So Jesus said to him, "Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God.
19You know the commandments: "Do not commit adultery,' "Do not murder,' "Do not steal,' "Do not bear false witness,' "Do not defraud,' "Honor your father and your mother."'[3]
20And he answered and said to Him, "Teacher, all these things I have kept from my youth."
21Then Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, "One thing you lack: Go your way, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, take up the cross, and follow Me."
22But he was sad at this word, and went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.

Why would Jesus tell him what to do if there was no choice involved? If everything was pre-ordained in that exchange and there is no true free will then it was all just a cruel game. And yet it says that Jesus loved him.

Do you do things like that to people you love?

It would completely contradict the way God is described in Matthew 10:7-10

7 "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
8For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
9Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?
10Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent?
11If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!

143 posted on 09/18/2003 3:09:28 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Hold the forks / The knives are coming / Spoons are on their way….)
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