April 13, 2005
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ExtremeStan posted a lengthy comment that ended with:
But it is happening. And that's the whole reason for God's plan of salvation, from the very beginning of man. He had the genius to create a process where the end result would be not only a creation free of evil and pain, but also with genuine free will -- yet without the lurking shadow of sin. The provision of absolute inviolability from pain/evil with absolute free will is a logical impossibility. But God's setting up a system, thousands of years in the making, that will make both come into fruition through the *voluntary* annihilation of sin's influence.
Can we really believe that God wisely foreknew the possibiltieis and probabilities, and on that basis set into motion a creation that would pan out just as this one has, with the full intention of eventually creating a people/world where sin has been voluntarily banished and where people voluntarily love one another completely, without "law" or compulsion, or threat of exile, or any outer motivating factors? Is that what our scripture points to? And is that what we are called to actually live out before we get to that final world? Loving others with a Christlike love, regardless of their treatment of us, or the risk of their treatment of us?
Whew!
Tonight's the night!!! After our youth meeting, I can "fix" my "do." About all that means is that I can cut it down even with the fuzz left in the low spots. A very short marine boot camp cut. Although, I have a youth pastor's meeting tomorrow at lunch, so maybe I should leave it for a day . . . hmmm
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I think that grappling with questions like this is sort of like trying to pin down a cloud, or put God into a box that has structure and order and meaning to us. But somehow I think God can do both simultaneously, that somehow it is right, even if we don't see the hows and wherefores.
Heather
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