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purpledawn

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Message 9 of 80 (254492)
10-24-2005 2:54 PM

Reply to: Message 1 by Phat
10-18-2005 6:56 AM

Free Will Before or After the Fall

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1) Free will would not exist were we never to have fallen. I believe this because were we in communion, there would be no need for free will as communion was the only decision needed.

That would mean that A&E did not have free will.

Also why would spiritual closeness or intimacy negate free will?

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Once you catch a cab, you no longer drive.

I think the art of writing good analogies is totally lost today.
What has this got to do with the price of eggs?

"The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which lasts forever." --Anatole France

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Message 52 of 80 (270385)
12-17-2005 6:19 PM

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12-17-2005 1:35 PM

Eve and Descendants

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

If you notice, God didn't pass the judgment on to her descendants.

I feel that God is very precise in what is to be passed down through the ages.

IMO, this was Eve's punishment, not women in general.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. -Edith Wharton

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Message 57 of 80 (270676)
12-19-2005 4:01 AM

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12-18-2005 9:27 PM

Re: Eve and Descendants

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Somewhere in the Bible there's a passage somebody wishes was not there.

And then there are those who don't like what the Bible actually says.

If one truly believes that the A&E story is an historical account, then one should believe what is actually written.

Not all women have major pain when it comes to childbirth.

If you notice it says greatly multiply, which to me says it wasn't considered to be totally painless to begin with, but pain of a lesser degree. Can't multiply what isn't there.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. -Edith Wharton

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