<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">R' Micha wrote:<i> If G-d would prosecute we could never win.</i><div><br></div><div>Theologically, this statement is troublesome to me.</div><div>HE created us and gave us our nature, as well as </div><div>the capacity to choose good over evil. Therefore,</div><div>if you say that we could never win, there has to be </div><div>a flaw in how HE created us. Why would G-d create</div><div>us to always lose. He surely would give us the opportunity</div><div>to win, even though it may be difficult. Furthermore, the</div><div>oven of Aknai story in Bava Metzia 59a-b supports my </div><div>objection in which R' Natan asks Eliyahu: What did HQBH</div><div>do in that hour? Eliyahu replied that G-d said: "My sons have</div><div>defeated Me; My sons have defeated Me." So from this, we</div><div>also clearly see that G-d did not win. And even if G-d were to</div><div>prosecute, the party being prosecuted may very well win, if </div><div>deserved through scrupulous behavior.</div><div><br></div></body></html>