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From: larryg@teklds.UUCP (Larry Gardner)
Newsgroups: net.religion,net.religion.christian
Subject: Re: QUESTIONS FROM A FRIEND
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Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 15:16:08 EST
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Summary: 


Chris,

you asked some very good questions.

I guess the story that Jesus tells about the King and the debtor may
be of some assistance on this point.  This King had a servant who
owed him about a million dollars.  Well, obviously the slave could
not pay back this money if it took his whole life.  So he asked
the King to have mercy on him and the King had compassion and
forgave him the whole debt.  Well, who footed the bill?  Well, the KIng
of course.  

You see it cost God something to forgive us our debt of sin, so Jesus,
also being God, paid the bill.

Just because God knows what you are going to do doesn't mean you
don't have a choice.  You do.  Some doctrine says that God decides
but I agree with you that it just doesn't make sense.  God knows
your choice but leaves you free to make it.  So therefore He can
hold you responsible for it.

Some things about God are hard to understand, but if you seek the
answers through prayer, reading the Bible and talking to other 
christians, the Holy Spirit will speak to you.

karen