"if God wants us all to get there, why should be given a choice about it? What inherent worth does freedom of choice have if there's only one correct choice?"
Tumoans in short because God values freedom over salvation, at least that was my understanding of the Catholic tradition. God ,part person, out of love wanted other creatures to share in what it means to be a person, to taste exisitence,being,freedom etc--to share in the richness of his own life, even at the cost of making the "wrong choice".
The ideas may sound abusrdly quaint and outmoded but the value of theology to me isnt really about knowing God stuff, its about understanding the part *the church* played in the formation of western culture and thought and by default perhaps the formation of ourselves.
― Kiwi, Thursday, 19 June 2008 10:04 (fifteen years ago) link