Posted by phone monkey at 2cust125.tnt1.minneapolis3.mn.da.uu.net on March 17, 2002 at 17:35:51:
In Reply to: Damn it! posted by Read The Summaries on March 17, 2002 at 13:40:01:
: I wrote a big long post about this and then my ISP fucked me over and I lost the whole thing!
: Anyway, I can't understand why no one ever considers that God actually planned the ENTIRE thing from kicking Bartleby and Loki out of Heaven and beyond.
: If s/he hadn't kicked them out then she would never had close enough to Bethany to impregnate her and the Scion line would've died when Bethany did.
: It all goes back to what Bethany's Mom said: "God has a plan for us all." Loki and Bartleby fufilled their part in that plan, the Christ line will continue, so there's no real reason for them to suffer any longer.
: Besides if was pretty well established that God cannot make a mistake and yet, a bunch of people died as a result of his/her decision to send them to Wisconsin and not just snuff them out of existence or send them to hell instead.
: Pretty big mistake to make, no? Unless of course s/he was fully aware of what would happen as result of that decision.
: That's what I reckon anyway.
: Andy
there - Two actually - how computers are able to discern what is truly important and what may create a schism in the body of the church, and secondly, that God has a plan, yet we are free to choose. God knows our hearts but we decide.
Your theory and mine tend to work together because it is within the individual that acceptance of God's plan occurs. So for Loki, his rebellion and his repentence would be known by God before they occurred, and his place in heaven prepared.
And it's still a few more weeks before Easter. I think we're doing pretty good.