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Re: 7 Pounds and The Sacrifice of Christ
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Originally Posted by Timmy
No, certainly not. If anyone else did that, it would be murder, but God gets a pass. He stands by and watches lots of atrocities. Has the power to stop them, but doesn't. But that's fine. He's God. (Funny, nobody would let me get away with standing by and watching a toddler get hit by a train and say "That's fine. He's Timmy.")
Oh, this is all explained in the book "The Shack", of course. You see, God can't step in and stop, say, a child molester. That would be wrong. No, the only way He could have stopped something like that is 1) to interfere with the molester's free will (how awful!) or 2) not to have created in the first place. Yep. Those are the only two ways "God" could think of, in the book.
Sigh.
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So what's your conclusion, Timmy? That there isn't really a God to step in? Or that there is One, but He's not as good as we are? (At least, those of us with protective instincts)
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