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I believe that we agree. This is illogical.
God gave us brains for a reason. He didn't want blind love; He wanted us to choose to love Him. This is why He made us in His image.
And God created man to his own image: to the image of God he created him: male and female he created them.
To believe that human reason does not apply when it comes to understanding God's plan for us makes no sense. We are not God's dumb animals. We are not God's pets. We are His children.
Naw, we are his creation...We are not his children til we receive him...
Joh_1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
See??? You guys obviously don't even care what God says, you got it all figured out within your great intellectual minds...
And yet you believe Mary was sinless...And you pray to Mary...
But that is Scriptural. Human reason cannot figure God out. God's ways are foolishness to the natural mind. Spiritual truths are spiritually discerned and the man without the Spirit cannot understand them.
1 Corinthians 1-2. You can look it up here instead of me posting both entire chapters.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%201-2&version=ESV
We are not God's dumb animals. We are not God's pets. We are His children.
Those who have received Jesus are the ones who have the right to become the children of God. That doesn't mean that by default that the rest are like dumb animals or pets, but rather His creation under His judgment.
Besides, I have NEVER seen anyone on FR ever even allude to that kind of mentality about the human race. I don't know where you get that.
http://biblehub.com/text/john/1-12.htm
John 1:12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,