Originally Posted by: PonyOnedo you think that's what God intended?

I for one think so...things are the way they should be.God is not taken by surprise and he isn't running a damage control center.

I personally don't believe we have free will.Everyone one of our choices are caused.We are not capable of making a choice without the influences around us,or the pulls of our own minds and emotions.

As for evil and suffering...

Isa 45:7 "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these [things]."

as for that...


Romans 8:18, "For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not
worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us."

2Corinthians 4:17 "For our light affliction, which is but for a
moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal(eonian) weight of glory."