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Christ, on the other hand, wants to change every detail of your life, yes; but
He wants to bring you to the point where you voluntarily choose the optimal
course for your life.
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Admittedly off the subject, but it connects with the problem of evil:
this is exactly the way that many think that humans should have been
created, if God is indeed good. One often sees this state denigrated by
Christians who want to weasel out of the problem of evil as that of
being a "mere automaton" (and thus for some reason not capable of
"true" worship, love, etc., so that God creates humans that will mostly
fry instead). So, why aren't humans created that way in the first place?

					James Jones