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To: Frumanchu
"Was He compelled by some external force to allow you to sin?"

Nothing is "external" to God. "For in Him we live, and move, and have out being,"



"What He helpless to prevent you from committing that sin?"

I do not understand your reference to "helplessness".  Are you aware there are certain things God will not do?

James 1:13
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:

132 posted on 04/21/2006 9:42:19 AM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: PetroniusMaximus
Nothing is "external" to God. "For in Him we live, and move, and have out being,"

So whatever it was that caused God to allow you to sin, it must reside within God Himself, right?

I do not understand your reference to "helplessness".

Was He not able to prevent you from sinning?

Are you aware there are certain things God will not do?

James 1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:

God will not Himself tempt man, but He most certainly will allow man to be tempted.

134 posted on 04/21/2006 9:47:53 AM PDT by Frumanchu (quod erat demonstrandum)
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