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I’m not using my own logic, nor am I renouncing scripture. I’m quoting Jesus and provided the scriptural reason why he needed it. And then there are the other Christians (Catholic and Protestant) whom I’ve quoted. You’re also accusing them of what you’re accusing me.

I provided the scripture reference in an earlier post. It’s simple. Jesus needed it. It fulfills a messianic prophecy.

A deity who doesn’t need to follow his plan in order to follow his plan would be an incredible being indeed. But as Jesus said, “The Lord has need of it.” It is, after all, a crucial part of the plan.

“The Lord has need of it” vs. “the Lord has need of nothing”. Only an apparent contradiction, I suggest.

God doesn’t need man and God does need man. Can we accept this as only an apparent contradiction rather than a true contradiction? Some of us can, some of us can’t and some of us haven’t given it much thought.

I like your point about it being inherent. God created man with potential. The potential is developed either positively (good) or negatively (evil). I think this inherent condition of free will is the best explanation of God saying that he creates evil. God has said that he wants all men to be...

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Whoever created the option of choice, whenever the option of choice was created, and wherever the option of choice was created, why was it created? For what purpose is the option of choice?

Did God create the option of choice, or did someone else create it? If not God, then who? And when? And where? If God created the option of choice, did God create the option of choice before God created man? if God created the option of choice, did God create the option of choice when God...

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God thinks. Is the same true then with God? -> As God thinks within himself, so he is?