> Questions about what God "would" or "would not" do are almost always unanswerable -- here's a person with an infinitely complex mind, someone the Bible shows men misinterpreting time and again. It's not easy and sometimes a bit presumptuous to attempt to answer a question about why God would do something. However, in this case I don't think it's too hard to hint at the answer. God created people to be in communion with him. Prior to the fall from the Garden of Eden, that communion existed. When they ate the fruit, a spiritual death (aka, separation from God) occurred. Naturally, given a God with infinite power to love and forgive, God wanted to close that separation and be in communion with humankind once again. The reason why it isn't terribly simple is that God, whatever his reasons, granted us freewill and has not revoked it. Hence, we have the ability, even if not the right, to refuse to return to God. But it doesn't mean God is going to stop trying.

Granted, we cannot say "God would do this", but that wasn't really my point. I'm not trying to map out God's mind; I do, however, assume that God does not do things like this without a reason (I my be wrong about that, but, for my part, it's a risk I'm willing to take). My question here, then, is this: what reason could exist for God to preserve a specimen that has died spiritually? The answer you give, that he has given the forgiveness, I believe to be correct. But, in that case, they are not spiritually dead. God has forgiven them their sins.

> In the Garden of Eden, the choices of Adam and Eve brought death upon themselves. God wants to give life back.

...alright, I can accept that.

> Have we been arguing? I didn't think so.

I didn't mean it as in a fistfight-with-words type scenario; I was using "argument" to mean a discussion in which two people have differing opinions. Or, at least, different points of view.

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