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Gamera · 04-16-2007, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by spamandham

Yes, by giving them free will. I'd rather be a programmed robot than sent to burn forever. God did not give me that choice. He denied me my free will to decline free will.

That's true, your life is doomed to have significance and meaning. That's what it means to be a person.

Cege · 04-16-2007, 05:45 PM

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12No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

Didn't the disciples and others see physical Jesus who the NT says is God? Didn't Paul see the spiritual Jesus who the NT says is God?

Others have already quoted OT verses that describe people who saw God, including Moses.

How, then, can no one have seen God, as the writer of 1 John says?

Cege · 04-16-2007, 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by xaxxat

If the image is alive, what qualities of the original would you expect it to have?

I would expect it to have the qualities of the living image.

Certainly not the qualities of a Xeroxed photo.

spamandham · 04-16-2007, 09:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Gamera

That's true, your life is doomed to have significance and meaning. That's what it means to be a person.

If the cost is to burn forever, I'd rather have no significance or meaning in the first place. Actually, I guess I'd have rather never existed than to face that.

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