Sorry for intrusion, your QuillXness. I REALLY don't plan to get involved in this but must say a) at least I admire your honesty that you depend on building a mindset-of-God in which you develop your positions. All Christian positions actually do that across the spectrum (not managing to come to concurrence of course) but it's rare you ever hear it admitted. We must interpret between the thin references to get to any position. b) one of the troubling things to me in this one is the overwhelming premise that our coming on stage is so precisely orchestrated/choreographed. I do think once born we have to find our integration and cohesiveness with the creation, and that our latent talents and surrounding context make a new mixture specific for us.

But the idea that somehow a crowd of souls are sort of ganged up in something like an invisible airport depot waiting for the available wombs and certain ones "land" on schedule for the ticketed passengers to board bothers me. I understand about 1 in 5 pregnancies that get recognized by women (and not interfered with) end in spontaneous miscarriage, and it suspected that down at a cellular level the rate is much higher (again when there is no interference.) Are these people that God let slip past the counter and had to bump off the flight after only just getting seated, or recall the plane in the air due to bad weather ahead, for later re-scheduling? Sorry to be so crude but lack a better poetic metaphor. I just can't come up with a reason that a God who is punching in every conception at its parking meter would put so many women through such an ordeal and tell new soul it's time is up so fast and to get back in line, if it's all really being arranged ahead.

Also if you carry the gotta-be-born-as-prearranged idea, then when does the script ever loosen up? Is our spouse planned ahead, our job sequence, which house we will rent or buy? Are some people born just to be sure the armies of the winning side have enough soldiers for the coming war or General Motors for the comeback of an economy? How much free will does that include for anybody? How could we justify turning down a student who wanted to major in medicine with horrible grades lest we mangle his possible destiny to emerge as a great doctor? Why would people have intelligence and choice about anything if it risks the intricate plan? I think the plan is there in outline, but we have to join it as co-creators so to speak, but getting beyond verbose here. Beloved, pardon, so sorry for spotting new post in doing nightly rounds and wandered in.