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To: thoughtomator
If you are asking about the principle of freedom to choose, then no. It does not violate that principle.

Let me give an analogy. Its not perfect, but it illustrates a point.

Lets say you want to go to university... so you go out and find the one you want and apply and go through the hassles and you get in.

Now lets say someone else does not know where to go to even apply to university. They are literally ignorant about how to get in.

Because the entrance is absolutely fair and just, everyone must have equal opportunity to enter.

If, after the second guy dies, and someone comes up to him and says "you never had a chance to go to school...You HAVE to go through the application process though. But do you want to go? Yes or no?"

If he answers yes, then they tell him, "here, we have filled out your application for you. All you have to do is sign here and turn it in..."

Did that chose for him? No.

Did that give him the same opportunity to get into school that you took? Yes.

Now the real trick is, who actually graduates, and with what GPA...

140 posted on 12/21/2003 10:50:14 PM PST by maui_hawaii
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To: maui_hawaii
Okay I think I get the idea... but the idea is not internally coherent.

If the entrance is fair and just, there can't be an application, because it wouldn't be fair and just to exclude only those who have names to put on the application. One would have to hold as an article of belief that only those non-Christians whose names are known to the LDS will have access to Heaven. Those whose names were lost in time would not have a fair chance at it.
146 posted on 12/21/2003 11:02:17 PM PST by thoughtomator (The United Nations is a terrorist organization)
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