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>Day Brown wrote to Mark Bloss about "Existence Exists"
 DB> 
 DB> To say that some folks *choose* to be damned unto hell doesn't in 
 DB> my mind, take God off the hook.  They are as he made them.  Their 
 DB> actions, while seemingly of a free will, are not volitional since 
 DB> they lack the rationality to do otherwise.  Aristotle made pretty 
 DB> clear to me that only the rational mind has any choice; evildoing 
 DB> is not something a rational mind chooses to do. 
 
 "While we were yet sinners, the Annointing died for the ungodly."
 
 Who are the ungodly in the above sentence?  The subject: "we".
 
 It was not our choice to be saved either.  It is our desire to be 
 saved.  All of us want to be saved.  We might not know what that means,
 or we might think it means something religious - but everyone wants
 what the word really means.  But now some of us "decide" not to believe
 it; and volition has everything to do with it - because _decision_ is
 of paramount import to a soul.    And what, please explain, does
 evildoing have to do with having power expended paying for what we
 already did, so we don't have to suffer for it?  God says, and I'll
 paraphrase slightly: "Why are you so blasted worried about what you
 did that was wrong?  I already took care of that for you, dummy."
 At least, that's the "Christian" bent.  And it _has_ to be the 
 Christian bent, because "Christian" _means_ Annointed of God, and
 you can't have little annointed ones flying around if they aren't
 really annointed ones, can you?  And how can you call non-annointed
 ones "Christian"?  But this is what many people do, all the time,
 without thinking about it.  If the Annointed One, Jesus, the "Christ" 
 (which literally means annointed of God) died so that we don't have
 to die a permanent death - and DOES it while we are yet unrepentant
 evildoers - do you really think the "sins" we committed were what God
 was so riled up about?  God wasn't riled up, He was willing to sacrifice
 His own Annointed so WE could forget our sins.  Do you really think our
 screw-ups bother God all that much?  No.  He, I think, is more concerned
 that our screw-ups bother Us so much!
 
... If a man can conquer his own darkness, he can defeat any enemy.
--- GEcho 1.11++TAG 2.7c
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