Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Free Will...really? Predestination...huh?
Talking on the phone one day with my dad, he told me that he believed that EVERYTHING is already planned out by God. I told him, "So God knew I was going to to call today?" he told me that not only God knew I would call, God knew what we just said before we said it...AND knows what we are about to say. This was YEARS before I went to seminary. It still seemed...odd to me. Then again....do we REALLY have free will? Is ANYTHING already decided? Some folks believe that before you were BORN it was already decided what your life would be....after your life? What you do MAKES NO DIFFERENCE. This means Mother Teressa could be in "hell" and Hitler could be in "heaven"...This....blows my mind. So what do you think? How much free will do we really have? How much is really decided ahead of time? Come figure it out with us Sunday Feb. 22nd. @ 5pm (for the record....we won't figure it out...but the conversation should be good.) Relax...it's just church...Afterhours
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Here's my take on predestination. Don't know if it will make sense or not but here goes: God has a plan for us but we get to choose the route. Sometimes we wander way far away from our spiritual center and our lives get messed up for it. But, when we make good choices sometimes just by asking God for his grace, our lives are full of good things and seem to be going right for us. All I really know is things have a way of working out--maybe not the way I expected--and all I have to do is have hope and faith in the Lord.
The concept of predestination is an extremely slippery slope. Try this experiment: repeatedly slap your dad until he says something like "stop it, you shouldn't do that". When he does then you say "Ah! so you do believe in free will!!"
Ought implies can.
I think that God knows the ending but we choose how we get to that ending. I do not think that every single act we make is predestined but the out come of these acts is. I don't know if we will ever really know for sure though. Faith <3
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