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To: SoothingDave
Except for the desire to yearn.

Does God owe them this desire?

3,929 posted on 04/13/2004 9:38:15 AM PDT by ksen (This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth I bid you stand, Men of the West!)
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To: ksen
Does God owe them this desire?

God owes nobody nothing.

Is this your ultimate fallback position? That God makes people with no chance for salvation, creates them with no capacity to do good and without even an inkling that they should desire to yearn for grace and renewal? And that because they act out on their nature it is "just" to punish them with eternal torment? Even thought everything they do is exactly what God wants them to do?

I don't believe that is consistent with a just and merciful God.

SD

3,932 posted on 04/13/2004 9:50:42 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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