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To: Dr. Eckleburg

"Every healthy baby born is by His specific will. Every battered body that washes ashore in Sumatra is by His will."

Not really. Here's God's will:

Genesis 2
16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

God said the world He made was "good." He only required obedience in this one area. And, He EXPECTED it. He HOPED for it. He DESIRED it. God did not wish for Adam to fall, nor did He cause Adam to fall by some form of "mysterious" predestination. God wanted Adam to OBEY. Calvinistic doctrine assumes that God planned--and even desired!--failure, but was not/is not responsible for it.


246 posted on 01/03/2005 10:21:50 PM PST by kidkosmic1 (www.InterviewwithGod.com)
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To: kidkosmic1
God said the world He made was "good." He only required obedience in this one area. And, He EXPECTED it. He HOPED for it. He DESIRED it. God did not wish for Adam to fall, nor did He cause Adam to fall by some form of "mysterious" predestination. God wanted Adam to OBEY. Calvinistic doctrine assumes that God planned--and even desired!--failure, but was not/is not responsible for it.

Did God know Adam would fall?

276 posted on 01/04/2005 9:07:46 AM PST by RnMomof7 (because I'm good enough , and smart enough and darn it I deserve it ")
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