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gkmcnees@comcast.net wrote:

> I take all the word of God as comfort. For I believe in the God
> who says that HE IS LOVE. I do not believe in a God who
> has created the vast majority of His human creatures to be
> damned, without a free will to receive His salvation.

I note here the internal contradiction of your view. You
can't believe in a God who would damn His own creatures,
yet you insist that He gave them free will so that they
have the tool to get damned.

You call this a "God of love", but He doesn't display
even the love a human parent towards His children. If
my kids were in mortal danger, I sure wouldn't leave
their safety up in the air by refusing to help them
until they asked for it, or showed some sign that they
wanted help from me, or showed some sign that they
trusted my judgement. I'm not waiting around for their
exercise of free will and some sort of reaching out to
me. I'm just going to save them.

If my toddler is walking toward a cliff, do I just say
"If you keep going, you're going to break your neck" and
then leave it up to him? Is my policy to let
him exercise his free will a loving policy? After he falls
and kills himself, do I say "Oh well, it was his choice"?

The God you describe is a monster, who creates billions of
people and lets wander off in their ignorance. When they
all end up in Hell, He just shrugs His shoulders and says
"Oh, well, it was their choice".

There is no comfort in "free will" doctrine.

Bart

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Hi Mike:
"Mike Rhodes" wrote in message
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> On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:02:02 +0000 (UTC), "Gary"
> wrote:
>
> >
> >"entropy" wrote in message
> >news:06DE6C6E-D0EE-BA8F-46D0-3C2FEBF5EAFF@srcbs.org...
> >> gkmcnees@comcast.net wrote...
>
> >> > One must not only read the Bible, one must believe it to be saved.
> >>
> >> That is not Scriptural. What the Bible says is that belief in Christ
> >> is saving, not belief in the Bible per se.
> >>
> >> John 3:16
> >
> >I agree.
> >
> >But we need to realize that "salvation" is used in more than one way
> >in Scripture. One can be "saved" from shipwreck, saved from sickness,
> >saved from physical death, saved from all kinds of error, and other
things.
> >
> >What John 3:16 refers to is salvation from sin.
> >
> >If people believe Scripture they are saved from all sorts of error.
> >
> >Further, as Christ said,