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To: kevao

Probably there can never be an utterly free will; but there can be free moral agents capable of choosing, in accordance with their attitude, among a range of things.

I think it is possible to get so hung up over fate or predestination or “absolute sovereignty” that we find ourselves frozen into a fatalistic idea that we are “God’s puppet show.”


20 posted on 08/14/2015 7:57:37 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck; Vigilanteman

I mess up. And when I do, it’s often spectacular. And every time I do, I know down to the very essence of my being that God did not predestine me to do so. Nor did a Calvinist god force me to do so (as he *must* — he can’t condemn me unless I sin; so if it’s his will to condemn me, then it’s his will that I sin).


24 posted on 08/14/2015 8:16:43 PM PDT by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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