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From: lindborg@cs.washington.edu (Jeff Lindborg)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian
Subject: Re: Could Jesus have sinned?
Message-ID: <Jun.10.23.32.21.1991.1270@athos.rutgers.edu>
Date: 11 Jun 91 03:32:23 GMT
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In article <Jun.9.14.44.57.1991.25105@athos.rutgers.edu> kk00+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kathleen P. Kowalski) writes:

>In response to your question about why God didn't create us without the
>ability to sin, it is my own opinion that he chose not to do that
>because he wanted us to have a choice.  He didn't want us to love him
>because there was no other choice, but because we wanted to.  I
>personally don't think that love that is forced is worth much.

so instead of not giving us a choice to love him, he gives us the 
ever-popular "love me or else" concept.  Oh so much better to be 
sure.  Is love derived of fear of punishment any better than love
that is forced?

You are still left with a petty, spiteful, God who seems more bent
on revenge and hatred than anything else...


Jeff Lindborg

"He who thinks but does not learn is in trouble.
 He who learns but does no think is lost."
                       -Confucius