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Arrangement in atonement is better than choice, for wisdom requires arrangement, and God is Wise, and choice in some things is better than arrangement as required by wisdom. The servant in order is a servant of necessity, like the worship of obligatory prayers, and the servant in making choices is a servant of choice, like the worship of voluntary prayers, and in it there is a smell of the slavery of necessity, and between worship. The voluntary prayers and the obligatory worship in bringing God closer to God are far from being in the highest rank, for God made the nearness in the obligatory prayers greater than the nearness in the voluntary prayers, and that is more beloved to Him. That is why He made the voluntary deeds obligatory and commanded us not to nullify our deeds, even if the deeds were voluntary, in order to take into account the bondage of compulsion over the bondage of choice, because the appearance of the authority of divinity. In it is my life and its significa


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