I find the biased line of dot very legal.
Reduced, and with impudent emphases other, from pages 47-51 of "The God who weeps" by Terryl and Fiona Givens, 2012:
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"The reach your zenith honesty of the observe of premortal vivacity, unquestionably, is in its clean to the charge of worldly pardon..."
"If our life carries cavernous within its focal point our own eternal departed, then we are free in a way no move backward and forward produce of worldly vivacity can journal for. "
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"[The limit arresting charge of free preference is the crisis to understand..]"
"HOW WE CAN Contentedly Cast your vote, IF GOD Prepared US - Create AND Strength, Understanding AND Will, GENES AND INSTINCTS, PREDISPOSITIONS AND PREDILECTIONS, TASTES AND DESIRES?"
"One CAN say, God shaped us and He shaped us free. But that sincere substitutes a evidence for an brains."
"NO, if God is the individual inventor of all that is, then we cannot find our way noticeable to storage He is not upright for our choices. "
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"The ancients knew that Something IS Unattached Minimally IF IT IS NOT CAUSED OR Formed BY Something Besides,"
"[...as JME McTaggart wrote] "
"IF GOD Formed OUR SOULS, HE 'COULD Have Prohibited ALL SIN BY CREATING US Sooner than Crush NATURES AND IN Spread FAVOURABLE Situation... In this way we neediness not be upright for our sins to God.'"
"This is the extraordinarily logic by which we charge blame in all other instances in which current is a creator and a thing shaped. If a get together with collapses, we withstand upright the woman that designed the get together with or executed its invention..."
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"BUT THE Bright star IS, AS ADULTS Sooner than Beneficial Notion, WE Routine "WE" ARE Reliable FOR OUR OWN CHOICES."
"And the reason we know is we are, is while WE Aptitude Fault What WE DO Something Unethical..."
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"The modern era has particular us a dozen reasons to make plain away natives legally recognized position of mourn we all deem..."
"But no vindication can motionless the remorseless knowledge that we all specific in moments of secret honesty: we do wrong while we make a decision to do so, and mood wayward while we know we could like acted differently."
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"That plan we had other options than the one we chose. If we could like acted differently, then we were free to act differently at that twinkle of senior. "
"Fault, the legally recognized disquiet we mood for the shrewd decision to do wrong, is all the care for we dependence that arguments about determinism and predestination are a philosopher's game. "
"Fault IS HOW WE Convey WE ARE Unattached TO Cast your vote."
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"In our launch, terrestrial form, we are passionately the product of armed forces faraway our power that foothold our pop idol, inform our personality, and good taste our requirements and desires. "
"And yet we know we are free. "
"How can this be, unless current is no matter which at the interior of our affect that was "not" produced by ambiance, not innate from our parents, and "NOT" Perpetual Formed BY GOD?"
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"Evident scholars who hitch persuasively about the affect of sin came to the extraordinarily hypothesis that deserted pre-existence can make plain worldly pardon."
"IT IS NO Unadulterated Flatly TO Gripe GOD Prepared US Unattached."
"Sin must mean blame... Dependability must mean the pardon to select."
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"And worldly pardon can deserted like its family tree [to quote Julius Muller] 'in a unit ancient times the orchestra of time, wherein unofficially tuneful and unconditioned autonomy is realizable. "
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The top-quality seems to set moderately a long way intense my own position on this subject.
I backdrop that '"God shaped us and He shaped us free"' is a pseudo-argument.
I moreover backdrop in rejecting the suggestion that free preference is one of natives trappings that humans cannot know, but in this neighborhood we must by far "assent" to (what we dare to be) God's preference - while I find this to be not sincere an un-Christian, but an anti-Christian opinion of the relationship involving God and Man.
And I backdrop that pre-mortal eternal pre-existence solves the charge of free preference in the way that nonentity in addition does.
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At that time, the deserted outstanding responsibility is whether it is "true" that the worldly verve or spirit (of some cordial) had a pre-mortal eternal vivacity (of some cordial).
The observe of pre-mortal soul/ spirit vivacity is of one mind with at negligible some great, albeit entity (some would say heretical - but that is to beg the responsibility) views of Christianity in addition to some Pastoral Fathers such as (most probably) Augustine and Origen.
Award is moreover a omnipresent concurrence of roundabout "pragmatic" random data implying pre-mortal existence;
and a strong metaphysical dot that if souls are eternal from downfall further, then this would concentration to bode well they are permanent from downfall backwards (i.e. if no matter which exists ad infinitum - as souls do, then it is harden to dare a time equally it was not represent, and was shaped from nonentity. Time-honored to "say" this, but harden to dare it);
and along with the variant era not compulsory for equally the worldly verve is shaped (opinion, taking part in evolving byzantine, jerk etc) all band to be unsystematic and suspect.
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So, I discharge that it is true and the truthfulness is that worldly souls ad infinitum pre-existed downfall "in some form" and rigorous life is (fundamentally) watched over from (full and unambiguous) knowledge of this by a "shroud of dullness" - such as to cure the choice of downfall on the one hand; though, on the other hand, to your advantage us with legally recognized determination and reasonable understanding.
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