Choosing And Total Submission

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Choosing and total submission by Rumi/Coleman Barks

A philosophically minded thief was shaking down fruit
in an orchard when the owner

came by. "Have you no reverence for divine commandments ?"
"But look at this abundance !

I am just the agent of its enjoyment." The owner tied the
man to a fruit tree and began

beating him. "This is a simple, uncomplicated cudgel. I am
merely the instrument of its justice."

"Wait! You're right. I recant the necessitarianism. There is
free will. Wedo

have choices ! Please stop !" Everyone has the power to
choose, because the creator

chose to create, so that freedom is innate. And this is
the extraordinary truth:

every human choice bows like a slave in submission to
the absolute's creative

will, yet this does not deprive us of freedom of taking
responsibility for what

we choose ! You might get clever and say, " My doubting
God's existence was

willed by God." Only half true. You also chose to doubt.