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To: kosta50

God leading one into temptation verses God causing one to sin are two different things. The Holy Spirit led Christ into the wilderness to be tempted. Satan did the tempting. You do not see God tempting man to sin in Scripture. He leads him to a place of trial and provides the werewithal to withstand the trial. He does not tempt him to sin.


4,372 posted on 01/07/2007 9:47:24 PM PST by Blogger (In nullo gloriandum quando nostrum nihil sit- Cyprian)
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To: Blogger
You do not see God tempting man to sin in Scripture. He leads him to a place of trial and provides the werewithal to withstand the trial

Calvinism will tell you that God made Satan for that purpose. Calvinism believes God deliberately set up traps for Adam and Eve to fall, knowing they will be tempted and fall.

Calvinism believes that's how God willed it and that's how it happened, Blogger. No free will is allowed to come between man and God. or as your fellow Calvinists keep reminding us Orthodox and Catholics – "God is in charge."

If I write a novel, who is the creator of the characters and what they do, and how the book ends, if not the author? certainly, the charaters in that book bear no blame! As I said, the whole concept of sin (and redemption, prayer and so on) in Calvinism falls flat on its face.

Of course, the Church believes that just as God allows evil to exist for a greater good, so He also allows us independent and free will to reject it.

What's the point of listing all those confessions when all they represent are traditions of men? Every Protestant believes exactly what he or she wants to believe, not what some confession of faith says. They cherry-pick from a buffet of views and opinions and make their own plate so to say. Cozy. Easy. Man-made.

4,389 posted on 01/08/2007 4:31:40 AM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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