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Re: A sincere question about the Bible
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Mon, 24 Nov 2003 03:26:04 GMT
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That said, there are some Christian traditions that do believe in
predestination (ironically, mine is one of them-- Puritans), but if the
person is unaware of the future, I guess you could still call it “free will”.
Logically you might even have to believe this if you believe in an
omniscient God, but I believe that God is outside the bounds of logic (as far
as we can understand, anyway) so perhaps not.
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I may be wrong about this, since I was raised Methodist/Pentacostal, but my
understanding of predestination only affected whether you went to heaven or not.
In other words, I don’t think Calvinism (the origin of predestination) assumes
that we are automatons controlled by God.
Rather, we are free beings whom God has chosen to take into heaven or not.
Oddly enough, I’m reading a book right now that is about the free
will/deterministism argument in science.
-lenny
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| (...) I would start with archetypal story of Adam and Eve and "original sin". We are free to choose from good and evil. This is a recurrent theme throughout the OT and NT. The People of God are always given the choice to choose good from evil, and (...) (21 years ago, 21-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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