tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843978396401833308.post3167178100191611602..comments2024-01-19T01:40:43.245-07:00Comments on BoyTrapped: An Odd CombinationAndreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15684272196949747140noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843978396401833308.post-88515768164945061062012-05-16T12:54:26.989-06:002012-05-16T12:54:26.989-06:00Love this post! Ender's Game is one of my fav...Love this post! Ender's Game is one of my favorite books, and your musings about Adam and Eve and choice are ones that I'm sure most of us reading your blog have pondered about as well.<br /><br />Through sequels and parallel novels, we find out that Bean was kept as a "back up reserve" in case Ender couldn't fulfill the purpose they had for him. Do you think there are ever "back ups" in Heavenly Father's plan?Matt Adamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05016406725168190273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843978396401833308.post-43297631018856121732012-05-07T13:10:44.080-06:002012-05-07T13:10:44.080-06:00It is a very interesting concept and one that I...It is a very interesting concept and one that I've pondered on too. Very good points and I just want to point out something. As my very "black and white"<br /> mother would say- choosing the right will make you free...to be able to keep choosing. <br /><br />Really want to read Enders Game now.Amyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01584385925041301989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843978396401833308.post-36768806576489555772012-05-07T10:23:22.167-06:002012-05-07T10:23:22.167-06:00Having foreknowledge of someone's choice does ...Having foreknowledge of someone's choice does in no way inhibit agency. I know that you will choose to feed your children. I can publish to the entire world that you will not fail at taking proper care of their nourishment. At the same time you can decide at any point in time to not feed them and lock yourself in your bedroom so you do not have to put up with their cries (I have known of parents to do that). If that were the case I would simply have been wrong in my publications. Let's pretend for a second that I am able to see the end from the beginning so that if I was ever wrong about anything I would cease to exist. I am not wrong about you deciding to take care of your children but you still have a choiceBrighamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17893190963489398193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843978396401833308.post-66418712892023045132012-05-05T23:28:08.497-06:002012-05-05T23:28:08.497-06:00Probably a very jumbled comment, but here it goes....Probably a very jumbled comment, but here it goes. <br />I do believe that we are always "free to choose". However, using more modern examples of our church leaders,I think President Monson absolutely has the choice to choose between right and wrong. But, like your mom, he is pretty consistent at choosing right. Otherwise he would not be in that position. I do believe that even outside of the inner workings of the church people like your mom are put in certain situations because of their consistency in choosing right. People like you and I are also put into those situations so the Lord can allow us the opportunity to choose the right, knowing full well that we may choose astray once in a while. <br />And then I make my sports analogy with soccer. A soccer team's starters are generally the most consistent players on the team. Once in a while that means that the better skilled players are actually on the bench. Then the coach has to choose when and how to use his alloted 3 subs in a game on when and how to allow those skilled yet less consistent players onto the field to affect the game.<br />Just as the coach and other team leaders will encourage those players to make the right plays, the Lord tries to convince me through promptings of the spirit or sometimes a little more loudly through a talk or lesson at church encourages us to make the right play as well.bretthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05253217751801817489noreply@blogger.com