Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site teklds.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!unc!mcnc!decvax!tektronix!teklds!larryg From: larryg@teklds.UUCP (Larry Gardner) Newsgroups: net.religion,net.religion.christian Subject: Re: QUESTIONS FROM A FRIEND Message-ID: <416@teklds.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 15:16:08 EST Article-I.D.: teklds.416 Posted: Wed Mar 6 15:16:08 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Mar-85 07:08:28 EST References: <221@cmu-cs-gandalf.ARPA> Reply-To: larryg@teklds.UUCP (Karen Clark) Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 27 Xref: watmath net.religion:5893 net.religion.christian:377 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