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To: Dutchboy88; Mrs. Don-o

If your assertion were true, that we have no free will, then God would be a monster. He would be condemning some to death and sparing others arbitrarily, since he decided all their thoughts and actions for them, so “sin” cannot exist. He also commands us to love Him and one another, when that is impossible, because love must be freely chosen, so “righteousness” cannot exist either. Those are just a couple of the contradictions that your interpretation gives rise to.

You are reducing God to a child stomping on ant hills.


139 posted on 05/13/2015 8:53:05 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

It is most interesting that you raise the same arguments thrown at Paul in Romans 9.

“You will say to me then, ‘Why does He still find fault? For who resists His will? (if you are right). On the contrary, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, ‘Why did you make me like this,’ will it?” Keep reading...some prepared beforehand for glory, some for destruction. Does this disturb you?


142 posted on 05/13/2015 9:00:02 AM PDT by Dutchboy88
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