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a_theist
"Thy will be done."
Date Joined Dec 2002
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| Posted 2/2/2003 10:04 AM (GMT -6) |   | Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant
I wonder why the first thing Paul had to say about love (God?) is that it is patient.
What does this verse truly say about God's nature in spite of the tyrannical view that is attributed to the God of classical theism; and can the God of predestination truly be a God of patience?
The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the overexamined life is nothing to write home about either.
Daniel C. Dennett
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Tom
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| Posted 2/2/2003 6:19 PM (GMT -6) | | Paul: What does this verse truly say about God's nature in spite of the tyrannical view that is attributed to the God of classical theism; and can the God of predestination truly be a God of patience?
Tom: Or what about "Love does not insist on its own way," that is, love is not controlling? How does this square with the claim that God exhaustively and unconditionally determines all things?
Tom
Love never ends
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a_theist
"Thy will be done."
Date Joined Dec 2002
Total Posts : 286
| Posted 2/2/2003 7:05 PM (GMT -6) | | Tom,
Did I not word that right? Did I not read that verse right? What about my question caused you to ask me a question instead of answering the question I posted?
I am confused
Peace,
Paul
P.S. Thanks for being personal and using my real name. 
The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the overexamined life is nothing to write home about either.
Daniel C. Dennett
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Tom
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| Posted 2/3/2003 2:23 AM (GMT -6) | | Paul: Did I not word that right? Did I not read that verse right? What about my question caused you to ask me a question instead of answering the question I posted? I am confused
Tom: Oh, I was agreeing with you I think. Your question seemed to be assuming that God's being "patient" entailed his not always getting his way, i.e., a less than exhaustively determined world. I agreed. I just was adding to that, suggesting that perhaps God's being love, and love's not insisting on its own way, might entail the same thing!
Make sense?
Tom
Love never ends
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