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To: 1000 silverlings
Yeah. It is.

I would say that to read the relevant verse from Hebrews as making an ethical and metaphysical statement about the nature of Will, the relationship between potency and act in God, etc is to ask too much of it.

Hebrews says, He cannot lie (It IS Hebrews, right? whatever...) I say Lying is not a thing about which "can" or "cannot" can strictly speaking be used. Better to say that someone who lies cannot tell the truth.

It's the whole evil as a privation of good line of thought.

1,736 posted on 05/04/2010 9:40:11 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (Deus autem noster in caelo;* omnia quaecumque voluit fecit. Alleluia)
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To: Mad Dawg
It IS Hebrews, right? whatever...)

Do you ever read what we write?

1,747 posted on 05/04/2010 10:03:07 AM PDT by 1000 silverlings (everything that deceives, also enchants: Plato)
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