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1 posted on 05/22/2024 7:07:42 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
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The word translated “evil” in Isaiah 45:7 is not “awon”, but “ra”, which definitely means “bad”.


2 posted on 05/22/2024 7:35:14 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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The mystery of iniquity is the most difficult moral problem. Martin Luther gave a philosophical basis, from nominalism, for the belief that God was responsible for Luther’s loss of control of his passions, in De Servo Arbitrio, “On Un-free Will”. Luther argued that people can achieve salvation or redemption only through God, and could not choose between good and evil through their own willpower; whereas, we are free to accept or reject free grace that God gives us to accomplish our justification and salvation. Luther employed the analogy that our capacity for good was thoroughly corrupted by the sin of Adam, by comparing us with dunghills that were merely covered by the snow of justification; but that we remained fundamentally corrupted; whereas, transformation of our minds while working out our salvation in fear and trembling, fundamentally converts us to good, though our final perfection will not mature until the end of time. Predestination is truly in the bible ( https://tinyurl.com/5yk74ru4 ), but its interpretation is subject to error: The mere fact that God knows from outside all time, who will and who will not be saved, doesn’t mean that He causes it, or that we lose responsibility for our moral choices.


5 posted on 05/22/2024 8:07:11 PM PDT by CharlesOConnell (CharlesOConnell)
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"That’s how Lucifer became Satan."

Can someone explain this to me, please? I thought the two are separate entities. I'm not getting how the two are the same.
7 posted on 05/22/2024 10:03:28 PM PDT by Retrofitted
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

i think he allowed the possibility of it...


8 posted on 05/22/2024 10:09:33 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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Bkmk


10 posted on 05/23/2024 2:42:16 AM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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Even in the material realm there are unanswered paradoxes such as the wave-particle duality of Quantum Mechanics. Also, that the two great physical theories, QM and Relativity, disagree about the quantization of nature.

In math there are all the paradoxes associated with infinities and the weirdness that Godel discovered with his incompleteness theorem.

These could be hints that philosophy and theology will also pose questions that we mere mortals won't be able to untangle.

14 posted on 05/23/2024 12:39:03 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (Kafka was an optimist.)
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