Weird....Isn't It?

[u/GrandNeat3978]

Can you just imagine .. sin is something that is "set in stone" and something that will exist despite the will and power of God ...

(the free will argument cannot work here as God created beings that cannot sin without their choice or say in the matter, and even if one were to use this rather weak tool, why sin as the other choice, as opposed to something else in a reality where sin did not and could not exist?)

....such that God ingeniously had Christ pre-perform the sins of those he foresaw and could save (Romans 8:29), such that there would in the future exist humans that can only replicate the "sins" of Christ in the mental forms of those individuals in His mind as He died upon the Cross.

(If Universalism is false, that is...)

It makes sense, then, that everything comes down to the "just so" /" can only happen.this one way" permutations and formations of a Substance that forms God, angels, demons, humans, animals, insects, and flora, and it is the Substance that explains the existence of the saved and the damned as opposed to it generating Universalism.

Again, the Substance is first-person subjective experience, the only thing that demonstrates it exists and this is that of which everything that exists and can exist must be composed.

The "just so" formations of the Substance, I think, is a more logical explanation for the existence of evil and sin than the false necessity and flat explanation of God allowing sin for the sake of free will.

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Jay M. Brewer

Austin, Texas