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From: pez@pyuxn.UUCP (Paul Zimmerman)
Newsgroups: net.religion,net.religion.christian
Subject: Re: God and suffering
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Date: Fri, 20-Sep-85 16:54:54 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 20 16:54:54 1985
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Rick,

	Why do you so vehemently deny the God's hateful enjoyment which He
gets out of your suffering? You speak of the apostle Paul saying that
God reproves those He loves. Isn't that enough for you? Must you devise
a bizarre ``explanation'' to account for this, instead of accepting the
fact that God is evil? Is God is as powerful as you believe Him to be,
then He could do anything. I can only conclude that he must enjoy the
suffering we endure in His presence, since if He didn't, He could simply
will it away. I contend that the fact that he doesn't will it away is
proof of His evil intent. Testing our faith in God, as Peter said,
produces ``righteousness.'' But what you and he call righteousness is
nothing but sheepish servitude and slavery. Of course, by this
definition, righteousness (whorship of the Damager-God) and sin (failure
to whorship) cannot co-exist, as you say.

Be well,
-- 
Paul Zimmerman - AT&T Bell Laboratories
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