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To: stuartcr

You miss the point of this whole exper....er...endeavor completely. What would be the point for God to create a bunch of mind-numbed robots that followed God explicitly and blindly... sort of like the Obamazombies have done and are doing?

Giving mankind free will is the ONLY way that humans could hope to rise above our own sinfullness and could redeem ourselves after the fall in Eden.

So, when someone kiddingly tells you that the hard times or bad day you’re having is “all just a test”.....

trust me. It really is!

It’s God’s test.


54 posted on 01/13/2009 10:36:31 AM PST by XenaLee
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To: XenaLee

I do not even begin to try to figure out God’s point in things. Why do we have wars, pestilence, catastrophes, etc? What is the point in a child having cancer? Giving man the concept, or the belief in/of free will, makes it possible to form societies and create laws. Since we are God’s creations, and He knows exactly what we will do and when, leads me to believe that there is not really any sinfullness for us to rise up over or a need for redemption. What we may think of as a test, is really just life. While you may see it as a test, I see it as the way God made us.


56 posted on 01/13/2009 10:45:52 AM PST by stuartcr (If the end doesn't justify the means...why have different means?)
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