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When one expects the government, be it political or religious, to shoulder their personal responsibility that person will ultimately deny any culpability.

So despite all their rhetoric about free will it is actually a concept that scares them to death such that they are willing to submit to the bondage of some greater human authority.

It is a sublime irony, isn't it?

The Roman Catholic champions free will and then turns over his will and God-given conscience to a fallible magisterium.

The Calvinist believes in God's sovereign predestination of all things, and so he willingly and joyfully trusts in the Lord for all things.

All things.

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose." -- Romans 8:28


"For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive?" -- 1 Corinthians 4:7


"For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

And he is before all things, and by him all things consist." -- Colossians 1:16-17


196 posted on 07/07/2010 9:15:20 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg

INDEED.


197 posted on 07/07/2010 9:18:43 AM PDT by Quix (THE PLAN of the Bosses: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2519352/posts?page=2#2)
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