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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (19790)	7/31/2001 5:13:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

God wills not out of His deficiency, but, as it were, out of His superfluity. The creation of the world is an expression of an exuberant overflow of Being, so to speak. Choices are dictated by the finitude of created beings, and the consequent need to stamp particular natures on each, and to coordinate the whole. In that sense, it is, indeed, limitation that forces choice in creation. On the one hand, a good deal of the choices made for this cosmos are arbitrary, from the perspective of eternity, however they may function as laws for us. On the other hand, the sum of choices still reflect the plenitude of God, His goodness and the generosity with which He made creatures.....