Isn't it great that the Lord gives us a choice?
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zomg, biblebanger frw. kthanks.
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I have a hard time with your theory. I have experienced the suicide of 2 of my brothers. I am a Christian, and knowing and understanding that God allows our choices, but is very often saddened or angered by the choices that we make that hurt ourselves or others around us, I would say NO. God does not find it beneficial in any way imaginable, by someone taking their own life. The desolation that you feel when a loved one does this, almost completely destroys you! My mother DID become a Christian yrs later, since that's what you were implying in your question, but I feel she probably would have anyway, if the Lord was working in her heart. SHE was the one who found her 2nd son dead, btw.....
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Freedom of choice  is wonderful thing
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If one follows that logic tree, that being homosexual is a choice, then yes that would mean being heterosexual is a choice.  And there is evidence out there to suggest it is and is not, but let us not open that can of worms.\n\nNow, let's play a little game I like to call Devil's Advocate ... if Keanue Reeves shows up, please shoot for me, the man is annoying.\n\nIf we assume one's own sexuality is indeed a personal choice, then it is safe to assume that who one finds attractive and who one is able to fall in love with is ALSO a personal choice.  This means we have contious control over our likes and dislikes.  AND, since we have the choice to be Hetero or Homo, a choice ever present so we can contiously change our perferences when ever we wish, then we have the choice to be attracted to mulitple people.  That is why we date multiple people, have multiple girl/boyfriends and why married men/women have wondering eyes, because we make that choice to do so.\n\nSo, is we can choose who we are attracted to AND can choose to be attacted to one or multiple people, legalizing the marriage between two homosexual people should be just a important as legalizing the marriages of multiple people of multiple genders.\n\nHere ends the Devil's Advocate Logic Train.  Hope I didn't give you a headache.  Basically, what you have pointed out is the completeion of the "it is a choice" logic train that most homophobs don't want to acknowledge.  The don't want to admite that by saying it is a choice, that means they have the same choice.  And by admiting EVERYONE has that choice it means God had/has little to do with who we are, it is all up to us.  But even is God gave us the choice, he has set down "laws" to curb our nature by declaring what we choose to be wrong.  And by admitting EVERYONE has this choice that means THEY have the choice and could, at some point, be gay themselves and fall out of God's favor.  Nuts, huh?\n\nNext part, gay marriage verse hetero divorce.  You will notice no one liked that comparison.  Amazing how "everyone" keeps complaining about gay marriage and family values when 50% of Americans get divorce, young girls are getting abortions or putting their children up for adoption or (in EXTREME cases) selling them, single parents are raising several kids and 25% of Americans are choosing to live alone or "in sin" with their heterosexual partner rather than get married.\n\nYes, since the reasoning behind banning gay marriage is to protect "family values" banning divorce would be the next logical step.  However, since 50% of straighter Americans get divorced and about 75% of straight Americans are against gay marriage, the act will never make it to congress.  It would just mess up their life if they actually had to work at beign happy with their partners.\n\nPlease ignore the sarcasim, I've been up for a while, but do not ignore the points you or I have made.  You are wise, grasshopper, and have much potential.  Don't stop thinking for yourself.\n\n~~ Abaddon
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There are some interesting verses in the bible.  God says these things:  "I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will harden the hearts of those also whom I choose".  God also likens Himself to a potter, and we are the clay.  He speaks of how He, as God...has the right to choose what to do with that clay.  I don't know why certain people are found of God and certain others are not.  But there is one thing I believe with all my heart:  that God is perfectly just, righteous and holy.  So I do not give up my faith in Him for those things I do not understand.
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God allows us to choose to do whatever we want to do.  It is society, humanity and organized religion that puts boundaries on behaviours and sets moral guidelines and laws to be followed.  God could care less what we do.  God loves us regardless and since there is no hell, we will still all return to be home with God when this physical incarnation ends.
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god will help you.  try to make a good choice.
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Yes, and I believe we were directed to be Jesus arms and hands here on earth for our season.  God may not need anything from us, but He sure does use us whenever He wants to, however He wants to, and that is His sovereign right.  We need to be willing vessels, if we want to recieve a blessing thru all the trials and such.\n\nYou can effect people without having a clue you are doing it.  It comes from the example you live out in your life, and if you are following the Lord, it will be for your good and the good of the Kingdom.  We all have had thoughts of what WE want to do for God, but what about what the Lord has planned for us, are we willing and ready to be used, sometimes without even knowing it.  Sometimes used in ways we would not consent to, except for Jesus in our heart.\n\nI have given money, knowing there was little chance to recieve it back, I have taken on care for 2 young boys, I have given up many personal rights, all in God's plan for my life.  There have been many more instances, and so many blessings from my trying to be obedient.  This is not what I thought I would do for God, but He has shown me that to raise my children in His knowledge is more important than whatever plan I thought would be for His glory.\n\nSo in this fallen world, we have to listen to the still small voice, and be obedient to it, even when we don't understand why... it isn't in our mind to know the mind of God. Blessings.
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Because they have the choice. Which is your God?
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i believe that as god giveth us life he also can taketh away.. and it says in the bible that all of us will die here on earth.. our souls goes back to god who gave it, and one day all will rise and we will  be held accountable for our lives here on earth...i do not think we will know the day, time or hour, but we should be prepared to meet our lord now.. there are signs in the bible and i believe are all coming to pass...but i think we should try and strive to live a moral life.. and john 3 16 says that whosoever believeth in me shall have eternal life...god has a purpose for all of his creation.. and i think he gives us choices here on earth..i know that living a christian life will not always be easy and it is not a bed or roses.. but at the end i think that we will be very happy when we reach the other side...the road to heaven is narrow and the road to hell is very wide...meaning those that think they can steal,kill, destroy, lie, and live immoral lives are living the lives of satan, and will not enter the kingdom of god.. we all make mistakes but we ask the lord to forgive us.. i think that if we seek the lord through prayer and his word he is there to help us in our time of sorrow.. i do not understand the atheist and those that deny our lord...god bless you and i hope this helped you... and thank you for the question for i can tell how i feel about our lord jesus christ....
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ABSOLUTELY NOT! GOD DOES NOT FORCE HIMSELF UPON US! Whom ever is doing this needs to go back and read the bible again. We  have the right to choose how we live. Good or bad. In the end we alone are left with our own end results.
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God is all powerful. He (or She) could have done anything.\n\nHowever God in His unlimited love has given US the free will to choose. We choose to accept or reject God's constant offer of spending eternity with Him in heaven. God will respect the choice we make.
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Fate is not a Christian teaching. God does have a plan and a way God would like us to choose and give instructions in the Bible and through sermons and religious study but God does not force us to make any decission and does not impose God's will on us. We are the master of our own destiny but with God and following God's direction we can achieve great and wounderous things and have God's assistance in doing so. If we choose another way we loose God's help and God may try to steer us in a different direction especially if the road we are on is truly dangerous. Even then we choose to follow the path we are on or change course.\n\nIt is all our choice.
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No, I think they choose to be that way.\n\nThe LORD said it was an abomination, to be that way, and if HE thought that, then HE would have known it was a choice, instead of something that is a given...as being born that way.\n\nI wish you well..\n\nJesse
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Ok, prepair yourself.  Before God even began creating the earth he has known EVERYTHING.  He knew that you would ask this question and that i would answer it.  God's choice is more God's will, and we are all in God's will.  If he wills it, it IS. \n\nIts easier to think of as a destiny.  He has the path set and we follow it.  Eventhough we are making our own desicions they are not new to Him.
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humans were created by a  loving and caring God , who loves them and  continue to do so, but gives us the power of  freewill or  choice.
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I am chosen and loved by God. He chlose all of us to be saved.  He is just waiting for us to choose him back.....