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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] The analogy falls apart when you realize that I can NOT "know" that my friend MUST die of cancer. (There's always spontaneous remission, successful treatment, etc.) Therefore I am justified in my anger. Only God can KNOW what MUST happen, due to His omniscience. He knows, by definition, that things CANNOT be any other way. (In other words, an omniscient God KNEW the snake was in Eden, KNEW it would tempt Eve, KNEW she would eat the apple, KNEW she would get Adam to as well, ALL IN ADVANCE!) This, of course, would mean that the punishment afterwards was a sham. That Eden was a set-up. In a Just universe, Superdude would have looked down. "Hmm. Snake in the garden. Nasty little bugger. Can't have that, the Tree of Knowledge is tempting enough on its own." *Zaps Snake to cinders* As for the rest of my post... sorry. Perhaps I let it get WAY too personal.. but dealing with these questions IS a VERY personal thing, don't you think? It's interesting that you say you hope _I_ can forgive _God._ Sounds like something out of Anne Rice's "Memnoch the Devil:" (The real key to getting into Heaven isn't God being able to forgive you, It's YOU being able to forgive HIM.) Let's see, thus far I've charged Him with neglect, hypocracy, conspiracy, entrapment, and murder. Yeah, I'm goin' to Hell. [IMG]http://flare.solareclipse.net/redface.gif[/IMG] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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