XPost: alt.bible, alt.messianic, alt.religion.christian   
   XPost: alt.christnet.christianlife   
   From: tiller@soil.org.9   
      
   >>> ==   
   >>> 1 Corinthians 7:14   
   >   
   >>> For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife,   
   >>> and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband;   
   >>> otherwise your children would be unclean,   
   >>> but now they are holy.  <=====   
   >>> ==   
      
      
   so, i just want to revisit this little bit;   
      
      
   God can know two possible outcomes   
      
   If   A   then   B   
   =and=   
   If   C   then   D   
      
   without forcing either. where God knows both B and D   
   but where God has left the option of A or C to the creation.   
   so this still shows that God can know all possible outcomes   
   without suggesting that God forces a specific outcome.   
      
      
   and mention this;   
      
      
   one thing we do not know and probably never will, is this;   
      
   what would or could have happened if Adam had wandered   
   through the garden and stumbled across a pretty little   
   fig tree, and -that- fig tree just happened to be   
   the Tree of Life and dear olde Adam took a bite of   
   -that- tree, before they started comparison shopping.   
      
   as we see, the Tree of Life was not pointed out to anyone,   
      
   it was just /there/ and Adam could have taken a bite from it,   
   because thee was, also, no proscription against eating from   
     that tree at that time.   
      
   so, what -would- have happened had Adam took a bite from Plan A?   
      
   but, we -should- _not_ suggest that Adam was forced to take   
   from that other tree, and that it was the ONLY possible outcome,   
     just because that's what did happen.   
      
   that's an assumption that need not be made.   
      
   Adam had every opportunity to take from the Tree of Life.   
      
   trouble is, after the fact, he starts stitching together   
   a stream of excuses and cover ups from the fig.   
      
      
   Adam was unfinished...   
      
      
   and also...   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)