Regaining Paradise LostLongman, 1994 - 151 pages |
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Page 64
... objects of desire when he had turned from the bestial herd to ask the Godhead for a fitting mate . Eve , however , does not make her own mind up . Though , superficially , the course she contemplates is narcissism , the profounder ...
... objects of desire when he had turned from the bestial herd to ask the Godhead for a fitting mate . Eve , however , does not make her own mind up . Though , superficially , the course she contemplates is narcissism , the profounder ...
Page 75
... object ' ( 9.360-1 ) . God's interdiction of the fruit of one tree has a logic - defying arbitrariness . Satan ( and Eve as she falls ) can make no sense of why that tree ? No reason . God needs give no reason , nor could do : what is ...
... object ' ( 9.360-1 ) . God's interdiction of the fruit of one tree has a logic - defying arbitrariness . Satan ( and Eve as she falls ) can make no sense of why that tree ? No reason . God needs give no reason , nor could do : what is ...
Page 103
... object to the logic of such events . How can it be right that the decision of ( one member of ) one species should so blight the well - being of all of creation ? Why has the Godhead ordered creation to permit this ? ( That one species ...
... object to the logic of such events . How can it be right that the decision of ( one member of ) one species should so blight the well - being of all of creation ? Why has the Godhead ordered creation to permit this ? ( That one species ...
Contents
The Holy Spirit | 23 |
The problem of Satan | 44 |
The private life of Adam and | 64 |
Copyright | |
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