No, my fiancée and I were never able to have children, though it was the one thing we always wanted. Now the family name is destined to perish with me.
So I see the point you are trying to make with your parent analogy. Unfortunately, I also see the flaws in it. For one thing, were I to have been a father, I would have been in my children's lives for as long as I would have been able. I would have been there for them, caring for them, nurturing them, protecting them. They could have come to me for anything they'd need and I would have given it to them without another thought. In short, I would have been existent. Do I seriously need to complete the point? Seriously?
Re: sin is the absence of God - Please stop the Dolphinetics (leaping from one point and then diving into another). I am not a child and I don't care for being treated like one. First you claim that sin is something against God's will; now it is the absence of God. If you don't want to make up your mind then that's okay, I'll just find a grownup to talk to and leave you to the tender mercies of the wolfpack.
So I see the point you are trying to make with your parent analogy. Unfortunately, I also see the flaws in it. For one thing, were I to have been a father, I would have been in my children's lives for as long as I would have been able. I would have been there for them, caring for them, nurturing them, protecting them. They could have come to me for anything they'd need and I would have given it to them without another thought. In short, I would have been existent. Do I seriously need to complete the point? Seriously?
Re: sin is the absence of God - Please stop the Dolphinetics (leaping from one point and then diving into another). I am not a child and I don't care for being treated like one. First you claim that sin is something against God's will; now it is the absence of God. If you don't want to make up your mind then that's okay, I'll just find a grownup to talk to and leave you to the tender mercies of the wolfpack.
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.'
