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To: gao seng who wrote (331)	4/10/2001 12:14:58 AM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1112

Amor vincit omnia et nos cedamus amori. Love conquers all and let us yield to love. (Vergil, Eclogae) w1.871.telia.com sententiae latinae

To: gao seng who wrote (331)	4/10/2001 12:22:06 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1112

I think that you made a fairly mainstream interpretation, I just have particular objections to that formulation. You are right, the idea is that man cannot truly adore God unless he does so freely, that love should not be compelled. I think that the sentiment of love, though, is not a matter of will, and therefore emphasize trust and obedience, which are components of the proper response to God, but not what we ordinarily mean by love. I should say that He made Man so that he can sin in order to make Man complicit as a kind of co- creator of the world. We are not merely automata, we are originators and choosers. You are indeed right, obedience is virtuous because we are subject to mixed inclinations, and have to choose with some tension over what is passed on. We can repair the universe in collaboration with God, or we can rend it through sin.