Good Theology, Charlie...
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From: profox-bounces (AT) leafe D.OT com [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On
Behalf Of Charlie Coleman
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 3:02 PM
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Subject: Re: [OT] Expelled for questioning Darwin
At 09:42 AM 3/11/2008 -0400, Ed Leafe wrote:
>On Mar 11, 2008, at 10:39 AM, Charlie Coleman wrote:
>
> > It sounds like the hang up you have is that God may actually allow
His
> > created to make a wrong choice. I suppose I'm trying to say that
when He
> > gave us "free will" it seems He limited Himself in that He would not
> > intervene if we did make a wrong choice.
>
> You continue to ignore the main issue: the fact that we are
stupid/
>unwise/impulsive enough to make "wrong" choices. That's a design
>decision the Mr. Omnipotent made before anything else. He made us
>weak; he made us stupid; he gave us impulses and a limited ability to
>control them.
Actually, I believe the first and only choice was the regarding the Tree
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Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden. Don't eat from it
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to be a pretty simple instruction. But God did give Adam and Eve free
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and they ended up choosing wrongly. Was that God's fault? I don't think
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- it wasn't like they didn't understand the one thing they weren't
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to do. But they allowed themselves to be deceived (free will makes it=20
possible to be deceived). After that first "fall," everything else in
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world was "corrupted" - at least our perception of things in regards to
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God originally created them. So God didn't design us "stupid" - we did
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to ourselves.
To you it may seem more logical to just have wiped out humankind
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at that point, and the billions/trillions of people since the fall just=20
simply would never have existed. But apparently God didn't choose that
path.
The good news is that God did provide a way for us to get back to Him.
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was foretold that many still won't accept it - maybe because of pride -
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there will be billions that do. It is an exercise in our "free will" to=20
determine which way we go.
-Charlie
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