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From: David E. Weldon, Ph.D. <David.E.Weldon@DaytonOH.ATTGIS.COM>
Subject: Re: BABY KILLING JESUS!!!
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Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 03:20:48 GMT
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}==========Robert Wiegand, 4/20/95==========
}
}spblair@acs.ucalgary.ca (Sean Philip Blair) writes:
}
}>Jesus does not wish the pain and suffering of human-kind. He
}>created us with free will to choose who we will follow,
}....
}>It's not that God wants and
}>wills to punish people, but rather that people must accept
}>responsibility for the choices they make, BECAUSE God has 
}given
}>us the freedom to choose.
}
}But what good is having free will if he didn't give us sufficient
}knowledge and wisdom to use it wisely? That sounds rather like 
}giving
}a gun to a small child them blaming the child for shooting itself.
}
Exactly the argument used by the Serpent when tempting Adam and Eve to eat of
the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden...

Sorry!  I just couldn't resist that one.

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}Robert Wiegand       |  "If 50 million people believe a foolish thing,
}Motorola Inc.        |  it is still a foolish thing"
}wiegand@cig.mot.com  |  Anatole France
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