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Article: "Intelligent design," Natural Design, and the problem of meaning in the natural world.
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- CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health
- Article date:
- March 22, 2007
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Without free will we cannot repent. Yet repentance in one's own mind--that is, the admission of a secret that one has kept from everyone else--is of course central to our actions. For Jews, it is the cornerstone of the observance of the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur.
We read in Deuteronomy 29, line 28
Concealed acts concern the Lord; but with overt acts it is for us
and our children to apply all the provisions of this Teaching.
This is a very clever and subtle obligation: on reflection, it is saying that concealed acts also require us to apply the provisions of "this Teaching/Torah," but for concealed acts, the provision is precisely that ...