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RE: Ask a Catholic
May 20, 2015 at 9:39 am
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Why can't the Holy God interact with a fallen race? Presumably he did that all the time in the old Testament. Unless of course all the prophets who had direct communication with and verification of God were not part of the fallen race.
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RE: Ask a Catholic
May 20, 2015 at 9:42 am
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If Adam and Eve disobeyed him, they didn't really fear him, now did they?
(May 20, 2015 at 9:39 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Why can't the Holy God interact with a fallen race? Presumably he did that all the time in the old Testament. Unless of course all the prophets who had direct communication with and verification of God were not part of the fallen race.
Because he's only
partially omnipotent?
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RE: Ask a Catholic
May 20, 2015 at 9:44 am
Why wouldn't he create us with the knowledge of good and evil? And if men were never meant to have the knowledge of good and evil...why not just get rid of A&E and start over, instead of going through all the trouble of condemning every single person that's ever going to live and setting up the laborious process of sacrificing himself to himself to provide an out from his own rules?
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RE: Ask a Catholic
May 20, 2015 at 9:47 am
You have to justify why the world is so shitty somehow.
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RE: Ask a Catholic
May 20, 2015 at 9:56 am
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At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Ask a Catholic
May 20, 2015 at 1:25 pm
(May 19, 2015 at 9:43 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Why did Luke Skywalker turn off his computer and rely on the Force?
Some things in works of fiction are never understood.
It was a shitty computer, it looked like it was no help at all. Anyway he could already bullseye womp rats so he had mad skillz.
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RE: Ask a Catholic
May 20, 2015 at 2:42 pm
But it boggles my mind...he waited up until Noah to hit the 'reset' button when he knew humans were fallen and sinful and condemned. Why not hit the reset button after Adam and Eve and simply not put the Tree of Knowledge anywhere in the garden?
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