----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Teo" <ateo@whitworth.edu>
> If we control every one of our individual actions and yet God still wills
> the final outcome, then would you say that God is in effect placing some
> constraints on the range of possible individual behaviors such that as
long
> as the beheviors fall within that range (which they must given the
> constraints), the outcome is most certainly forced into a particular
> direction?
By analogy with the dot in Sierpinski's gasket (and those types of
equations), the dot can move toward any of the vertices it 'wants' to. The
over all pattern of its output is fixed. What I am saying is that regardless
of our choice, God wins. he doesn't have to force the situation any more
than I have to force a particular outcome of the traveling dot in the
manufacture of Sierpinski's gasket. The dot moves according to the rules it
has to live within (like we do also) and the pattern follows naturally.
>
glenn
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