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To: HarleyD; Campion; Dr. Eckleburg; bornacatholic
Unless one understands the sovereignty of God it is impossible to fully understand repentance, faith and charity

If that is so, then the Reformed theology must also teach that He is the author of good and evil, of repentance and sin, of faith and atheism, of charity and intolarance, of mercy and cruelty as well!

What can Love do but offer love? There is no evil in pure Love. But if your theology has merit, we must assume that Love somehow created evil as well. That is a twisted theology I must admit.

For, if you are right, our sinfulness is olso His doing, our slavery to sin is God's plan, giving Him "credit" for our Fall and holding Him accountable for it!

We "semi-Pelagians" blame man for the corruption of God's Creation. By giving us the freedom to accpet His gifts or to reject them, to do good with them or to do evil, He did create chaos as the OT says, but what's the alternative that you propose: God created some that He loves and saves and some that He loves and destroys? You must be joking.

17 posted on 01/02/2006 7:53:33 AM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50; HarleyD; Dr. Eckleburg
What can Love do but offer love? There is no evil in pure Love. But if your theology has merit, we must assume that Love somehow created evil as well. That is a twisted theology I must admit.

But God hates sin. The act of hating is not a love act, it is a hate act. While God is certainly pure love, this means he must necessarily be more than that. For example, God is also pure justice, pure mercy, and even pure wrath.

Concerning love creating evil, God creates all of us and we are all born into sin. We are all born evil and God created us. How is this twisted theology?

42 posted on 01/02/2006 12:03:46 PM PST by Forest Keeper
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