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>Matthew Johnson:
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>You wrote in consideration of Job 2:10: "It is also of interest to note
>that even if "at the hand of" _did_ imply authorship, Job did _not_ say
>"shall we not receive evil at the hand of God". The _departure_ from
>parallelism looks deliberate. It could very well be to deny that God is
>the author of evil."
>
>How would you reconcile your interpretation with Job 12:9 "Who among
>all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?"
'Reconcile'? No 'reconciliation' is necessary. I think you would have understood
this if you had not passed over the James citation in such suspicious silence.
Then again, I also would have thought you would have figured out by now the
importance of configuring your newsreader to follow the quoting conventions of
the FAQ and Charter for this Newsgroup.
Learn to play by the rules, or you _will_ be disappointed with the results.
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Matthew Johnson wrote:
> In article <7C26D8BD-98B5-9861-772F-8E035E68B3CB@srcbs.org>, Gary says...
> >
> >
> >"Matthew Johnson"
>
> [snip]
>
> >Matthew, I was giving a strict definition.
> >That is, the CHOICES are DETERMINED by the SE:LF.
>
> I knew that...
>
> >How the "self" determines these choices is very complicated.
>
> True. It is good to see we agree on that at least.
>
> >But I agree that all of us are "influenced" by external
> >means.
> >It is just that what I am saying is that these external
> >things
> >do NOT DETERMINE the choice. IF they do DETERMINE
> >the choice, then the self has not determined it, and hence
> >is
> >relieved of responsibility.
>
> But this is where you go astray: why, oh why, are you so certain that there are
> only two possibilities here? Doesn't that ring of 'false dichotomy' to you? It
> does to me.
>
> How can you a priori rule out the possibility that 'determination of choice' is
> not a JOINT action resulting from BOTH external influence and internal
> inclination/decision making/etc?
>
> [snip]
If accepting Yeshua (Salvation) is a necessary choice all must make
(John 3:16-18), and we all have different external, environmental,