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From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois)
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Subject: Re: QUESTIONS FROM A FRIEND
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> I'm not sure I quite follow what you mean.  God is upset by sin, and would
> be so if Christ died or not.  God is angry at the killing of Jesus
> because it was murder, regardless of what good resulted.

Jesus accomplished his death.  He committed his spirit.  Was it murder?

> Actually, which religion makes people the happiest is really 
> irrelevant:  true religion is following God, and if he says to do things
> that make you miserable, you'd better do them.

Bravo!

> In the case of Christianity,
> we see God as loving, so he would not deliberately make his people miserable,
> yet I think we also see that God's concern is for the redemption of the
> Creation, hence he sometimes calls on believers to sacrifice and perhaps be
> less happy.  Bottom line: who's happiest doesn't mean much, and Christians
> should not expect to be.

He WOULD make his people deliberately miserable.  If my daughter doesn't
want to do her homework, I will DELIBERATELY make her miserable by
making her do it.  (Actually, this has never come up, but that's what I'd
do if it did.)

Last sentence is completely correct.  But we can expect to be joyful,
even if we're not happy.
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