In reply to ethereal's post,
There is an implicit assumption in Hawkins' words that the two lives are separate and distinct, unaffective of the other without "intervention". The notion that you can rob someone of an opportunity for a learning experience suggests, first of all, that you do not have your own learning experience to partake in from the very act of helping in the first place.
He thirdly assumes that the nature of God is that of a higher and greater being, holy and separate from we human beings. That, what it means to be "between you and God" is distinct from "between you and me".
Just acting as a counterpoint.
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