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Old 09-11-2004, 05:05 PM
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What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?
This is a quote from the movie Clockwork Orange. What do you think?
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"in some way" everything is "better". lol... but the question shouldn't concern "some way".

God has no need to want anything external from Himself. His wants are immediately and eternally fulfilled by His internal, spiritual potency.
God knows what we want and so He wants us to have it. Therefore He gives us instructions to surrender unto Him. That will make us happy. But many of us do not and so God fulfills our perverted desires in different ways. Unfortunately because our desires constitute a perversion, the results are perverted. That is why we have such things as suffering. God is the only perfect desire. Only then will we have perfect peace.
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