"Bob Felts" wrote in message
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> Stephen M. Adams wrote:
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> As Bart so eloquently put it, your way is no better. I'll repeat it in
> it's entirety:
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> | 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.

Lets get it straight, Bart and Bob, whoever else is as blind
as a bat. :)

Your crude idea above, which you think makes your position
no worse than that where man chooses whether he will go to
heaven or hell, is is prepostrous to anyone except a Calviniist.

Free will is a GOOD gift from God. Man, by abusing it, sins.

And by one sin, Adam put all men under disobedience. BUT
God who is very Love Itself, has mercy upon ALL as He
repeatedly states, and makes salvation much easier and better
than the sin Adam sinned.

By one sin Adam put unto this state, But by oine Act of
Righteousness Christ not only takes us out of it, but makes
salvation and eternal life in heaven assured.

Thus your foolish, preprostrous, idiotic, idea that God offering
all men the free gift of Salvation is somehow "just as bad" (it is
not BAD at all -- it is gloriously wonderful.) as God purposely
creating most men for hell with no provision for life, and no
free will to even accept His free gift, is ludicrous!! To say the
very least.

> | You call this a "God of love", but He doesn't display
> | even the love a human parent towards His children.

Ah! No the one who doesn't even display the love of a fiend,
is your god. An ALL powerful being, who creates untold multitudes
with out any free will to receive His free salvation, but rather
created such that they can only sin, and be damned! This god
is certainly "loving" isn't he? Why yes! This god of Calvinism
causes all to be born in a condition that they can do nothing but
sin, and for this sin which he made necessary, he then tortures
them eternally! What a wonderful loving god! NO!

> | 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.

Neither does the TRUE God! But this is precisely what
your god does! No, the true God does warn all men, He
convicts all men of sin, of the judgment to come, and of
the Gospel of Righteousness wh