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To: kosta50; boatbums; momof7
Actually, no, it's the world human beings who reject God and his perfect will make

So, God is not in charge or control?

Do you accept the Catholic doctrine of "free will".

CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
1730 God created man a rational being, conferring on him the dignity of a person who can initiate and control his own actions. "God willed that man should be 'left in the hand of his own counsel,' so that he might of his own accord seek his Creator and freely attain his full and blessed perfection by cleaving to him."

Man is rational and therefore like God; he is created with free will and is master over his acts.

3,464 posted on 11/28/2010 1:19:33 PM PST by OLD REGGIE (I am a Biblical Unitarian?)
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To: OLD REGGIE; boatbums; momof7
Do you accept the Catholic doctrine of "free will".

No, because it breaks down in the "next" world, where the saved will be (1) either without free will, or (2) with free will but unable (or somehow not inclined) to commit sin. Either way, the free will is the first casualty. Why not just make man "not inclined" to sin and spare us the drama?

3,518 posted on 11/28/2010 7:52:28 PM PST by kosta50 (God is tired of repenting -- Jeremiah 15:6, KJV)
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