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Re: Will Libertopia cause the needy to get less?
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Fri, 1 Dec 2000 16:03:15 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Tom Stangl writes:
> John Neal wrote:
> > Christians do good with joy in *response* to God's love.
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> Yet your god sends people to Hell. "I love you, but go suffer for an
> eternity". No thanks.
Seems to me, Tom, that your struggling here...
If God didn't allow us to suffer, He would be a controlling entity - and we
mere automatons. We do have choise - that is required by true love.
I'd be really interested to know what it is that you believe about God?
Do you think yourself an athiest, agnostic, what... and why?
-Jon
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| (...) *The Unitarian perks up* Now, if God is the alpha and omega, knows all past, present, and future, is there really any Free Will beyond simple human Brownian motion? That's the Calvinist model, that we don't really have Free Will, but that our (...) (24 years ago, 1-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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