georgann pulled a bright blue crayon out of the box and scribbled this
in news:BC366CD9.3535D6B5%chenault@mindspring.com: 

[...]
 
> georgann (forgiven since 33 AD) wrote:
> 
> God chooses those who "WILL" choose Him. He knew everything about the
> end before the beginning.

If that's the case, he knew that his creation was going to mess up, by 
eating the fruit of the 'tree', he knew that Christ was going to to have to 
be incarnated as man to be crucified and he knew that Christ would rise 
again....all this BEFORE he created the universe (with its sin).

This means then, that He was totally OK with this thing called sin before 
he created the universe and all the sin it contains.  Otherwise he would 
not have created it.

...and this brings up another interesting point: if evil exists in the 
world and He created everything in the world, then He must have created 
evil.  Note that the first chapter of John's gospel says that He created 
everything, not just the good stuff.  So either God created evil with 
everything else, or evil doesn't exist...

That kind of doesn't fit with what is said on the 700 Club.

R.

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