Re: [asa] Neo-Darwinism and God's action

Fascinating question. Can we speculate that (a) our "present sufferings"
are part of the tutalage we need so that we will not use our free will to
repeat Adam's sin in the new creation; (b) Christ's victory on the cross and
the final consignment of the demonic powers to hell as a result of that
victory ultimately will remove a persistent source of temptation and
disorder; and (c) the power of the Resurrection of Christ manifested in the
resurrection of the redeemed will enable us to be transformed physically and
mentally in ways that support the choice to live in loving fellowship with
God and others?

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 3:46 PM, gordon brown <Gordon.Brown@colorado.edu>
wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, David Opderbeck wrote:
>
> > One classical answer to this problem -- not limited to YECs -- is that
> God
> > created free beings because of love. In his love, God desires us to
> have
> > freedom; but freedom implies the ability to choose wrongly.
>
> Do we need to define what we mean by freedom? It is implied that freedom
> is good but has to have a downside. If it is good, then presumably we will
> have it in the next life, but will it have to have a downside there too?
>
> Gordon Brown (ASA member)
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