From this article: http://www.alphaconsultant.com/2009/12/your-kingdom-come.html#links
"We confuse cause with consequence. Jesus came to save us from the cause (sin) rather than the consequence (hell). In other words, the problem Jesus came to deal with is not impersonal hell but personal sin."
Nice! Sin sucks... we all need to improve our archery.
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Disagreed. Those who know scripture and Christian theology know that God knew before time that all of what we now experience -- including sin -- would come to pass in eternity. In other words, God was able to see that people would sin before there were people to sin.
This means that the cause of Jesus's first coming was God's own pre-planning and motivation to save people from the sin he knew they'd commit. God was his own cause. The consequence of his foreknowledge and subsequent creation of the cosmos is that people have sinned. Which is what he knew would happen in the first place.
So, by foreknowing our sin and then going ahead an creating us anyway, he has willingly accomplished both the cause and the consequence of our sin. Deo culpa.
When you love baseball, you play baseball. Fixing the game isn't playing baseball.
God creating baseball would only make him responsible in a certain sense for his team letting some runs in. Therefore, when God wins at baseball, he has done nothing silly.
A baseball lover with the power to see the future is still likely to enjoy the sport and find a way to step in for a round himself.
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