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To: NCLaw441
God could have created a world in which there was no death, no pain, nothing negative.

He might have called it "Eden."

196 posted on 08/18/2005 7:06:17 PM PDT by syriacus (Cindy doesn't want our soldiers to shoot insurgent bombers who are murdering small Iraqi children.)
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To: syriacus

You said: He might have called it "Eden."

As we know, God left the possiblity of sin open in Eden. That's why we're in the mess we're in. God could have, if He wanted, made Eden without the tree of knowledge of good and evil, so that no sin was possible. But He chose to give us free will, which we promptly used to sin against Him.


220 posted on 08/18/2005 7:17:01 PM PDT by NCLaw441
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To: syriacus
Actually, the Sumerians named the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Mesopotamia as "Eden".

They wrote it down long before Abram became Abraham.

264 posted on 08/18/2005 7:47:16 PM PDT by muawiyah (/ hey coach do I gotta' put in that "/sarcasm " thing again?)
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