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Author Topic:   Does the Christian God Play with Free Will?
NeoPagan
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Message 5 of 83 (41726)
05-29-2003 3:45 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Rrhain
05-27-2003 10:48 PM


God and Free Will
I believe that God never interferes in anybody's free will. Your references come from the Old Testament, which in my opinion, was witten by a bunch of terrorists. I'm not saying that there couldn't have been some accuracy to the actual historical events, but the "interpretation" leaves a great deal to be desired. Most of the Old Testament was obviously written by people who believed themselves to be "favored" by God, and every account of every event, battle, etc. is tempered with this belief. "And God commanded..." God seemed to do whatever was in the best interest of the Israelites (or so they wrote) and whatever would give them ultimate victory in wars, accumulation of other people's land & possessions. (Have you ever noticed that the entire Old Testament is written by one particular sect of people with an "agenda?") There were many times when the Israelites did not win wars, ended up in slavery, etc., and to justify God's abandonment, they had to explain that they were being punished for sins committed. (Did God also "harden their hearts to sin so that he could throw them into a few hundred years of slavery?) If you take a good look at God's "chosen people" there was little difference in them & other "heathen" tribes before & after God's so-called "favor." How would the person writing this account actually "know" what God did or didn't do in Pharoah's heart? All he had was the actual event. The writer provided the "interpretation" & what he "believed" God did to Pharoah (based on his own agenda & his own interests & belief system).
Funny thing about the Old Testament--they never interviewed Pharoah or
gave us a chance to hear his side of the story.

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