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Chriliman

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This is the truest statement I've ever seen from you.
 
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I'll add that I believe God is big enough to handle our honest questions and that He is loving enough to guide us to His truth of salvation in Jesus Christ, if we honestly desire it.
 
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I'll add that I believe God is big enough to handle our honest questions and that He is loving enough to guide us to His truth of salvation in Jesus Christ, if we honestly desire it.

If i have a strong enough psychological desire to believe in Thor as my God, guess what would happen?
 
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According to my understanding, before Adam and Eve sinned, there was no death. Now they obviously had sex organs otherwise they would have had no reason to see themselves naked upon sinning. Had they never sinned, it seems it would be just a matter of time before the world becomes over populated with people and all the animals procreating without anyone or anything dying. What do you suppose God would have done to prevent this from happening?


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I don't care to speculate on such a thing.
 
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No I would not.
*God designed humans and animals to procreate, without the necessity of eventually dying,
*He put a system in place where sin was possible to be discovered which would result in the possibility of dying.

How come you can’t agree that sin was necessary in order for the requirement of dying to be accomplished?

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Tough questions, don't get answered.
 
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I think these are excellent questions. I've often wondered myself when God determined that we would need genitals. The best answer I can see is that since God created angels and man with free will, He foreknew some angels would rebel and deceive man and cause them to sin as well, therefore in His correct foreknowledge He designed man with the appropriate biology in order to accomplish His will of overcoming the deception that introduced sin and death into God's creation caused by angels who had free will. God's design and plan will overcome and destroy the dark forces in His creation, we just haven't realized the fullness of His perfect plan yet, from our perspective.

A perfectly just God would create perfect beings that have true free will, it's just that in His foreknowledge He knows their choices, but His knowledge of their choices has no effect on their freedom of choice because one can have knowledge of someone else and not effect their free will just because they have knowledge of them.
 
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That´s got to be the most breathtaking attempt at an explanation that I have heard all my life.
Is there an award for literature of this genre?
 
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Because you did not ask me that. You asked me if I agreed that God put a design and system in place where sin was necessary?

I said no. You mentioned nothing about death in the question I said "no" to.
 
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Thank you for answering my question

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Because you did not ask me that. You asked me if I agreed that God put a design and system in place where sin was necessary?

I said no. You mentioned nothing about death in the question I said "no" to.
That's okay; Chriliman answered my question.

Ken
 
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Tough questions, don't get answered.
I can answer it, death or translation was already part of life for man, it's normal. This world is not our permanent home. Adam and Eve incarnate on an evolved, populated earth. The loss of immortality status was specific to Adam and Eve who could no longer eat from "the tree of life" due to their sin. They became like one of us and consigned to the Ascension plan that man is. All sons of God high and low have freedom to choose rightly or wrongly.
 
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How do you know what our home is after this world?
 
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How do you know what our home is after this world?
Its a matter of faith in what we have been told from those who come from the other side. There are no gurantees, even evolutionary life didn't foresee with certainty.

There is an issue that we need to clarify, life was designed with all this uncertainty for a reason, we are supposed to be experiencing the search for values, for material and spiritual truth. We are in spiritual kindergarten on this world. And for what it's worth in my theology life after death adds nothing to us once we awake in the resurrection on the next world aside from the fact of survival. Faith will always be with us as we make our way inward to the spiritual presence of the Universal Father
 
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