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To: Cisco who wrote (23)9/12/1999 10:39:00 PM
From: Cisco  Respond to of 69300
 
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To: Cisco who wrote (23)9/13/1999 9:24:00 AM
From: MikeH  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 69300
 
Maybe it is our assumptions about God that are wrong.

Instead of a loving caring mother, maybe God is a stern taskmaster father.

Maybe it is the human desire to have happy endings that humans manipulate God's teachings, so that they give us a warm fuzzy, instead of a sense of duty.



To: Cisco who wrote (23)9/13/1999 9:05:00 PM
From: Akula  Respond to of 69300
 
Intervention would necesarily preclude the right of free will. If we did not have free will, what would be the point. In order for there to be an omnipotent God worthy of worship, constant intervention is precluded.