thread: 2006-09-08 : Salvation, damnation, justification, a la Sydney
On 2006-09-09, Tris wrote:
Sydney - you are witnessing in great detail to people who are truely interested and engaged. Seems pretty worthwhile to me.
Two questions:
1) On the origin of evil - how can it come from free will?
God can restrict or allow us freedoms at will. He appears to have left me without the free will to fly. So presumably some restriction on free will is okay. Why didn't he restrict my ability to stab people in the head, instead of my ability to fly?
2) On the need for a Christ
I still don't understand why an all powerful being required some incarnation of himself to live as us and die for us. I've heard this is to earn us forgiveness, could he not just give that forgiveness?
One answer I've heard is that He is just, and therefore can't forgive sin just like that. But making someone else suffer for me doesn't seem just. Could you explain this for me, as best you can, please?
