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To: irishtenor

If everything was micromanaged down to the nanosecond, then why in the world would God spend the entire OT and much of the New attempting to get the Jews accept Christ and having it fail?

I would say that this is evidence that God does not micromanage. He lets His people do as they will, with certain guidance from His Church (AD) and let the chips fall where they may.

I think that it goes back to the understanding of the Catholics that God allows people the dignity (and the consequences) of free will versus the understanding of the Calvinists that the Holy Spirit picks the names of the elite out of the cosmic bingo ball and frogmarches them into heaven and sends the rest of humanity to everlasting fire in hell.


13,163 posted on 02/07/2008 5:10:38 PM PST by MarkBsnr (I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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To: MarkBsnr; Gamecock; Forest Keeper; xzins

Maybe your God failed, but the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Danial, David, Noah, Moses, Adam, Seth, etc. did not fail, does not fail, will not fail. Frogmarch yourself to your church and blindly obey everything they tell you. You have the free will to do it.


13,164 posted on 02/07/2008 6:41:54 PM PST by irishtenor (Check out my blog at http://boompa53.blogspot.com/)
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