To: RobbyS; metmom
This is part of the subtle way that Catholicism teaches that God is a capricious, demanding, judgmental and harsh taskmaster.
Sounds sort of like this:
"The devil and wicked men are so held in on every side with the hand of God, that they cannot conceive, or contrive, or execute any mischief, any farther than God himself doth not permit only, but command. Nor are they only held in fetters, but compelled also, as with a bridle, to perform obedience to those commands." (Calv. Inst., b. 1, c. 17, s. 11.)
"...when God makes angels or men sin, he does not sin himself, because he does not break any law. For God is under no law, and therefore cannot sin." (Zwingli in Serm. de Provid., c. 5, 6.)
178 posted on
01/17/2012 3:12:52 PM PST by
aruanan
To: aruanan
184 posted on
01/17/2012 4:31:30 PM PST by
metmom
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