Harvard Psychologist Daniel Gilbert discusses whether you can believe in predestination and free will at the same time, in this outtake from the documentary the Nature of Existence.
This chap is right. Science is slowly but surely dismantling God ! Why can't people see how man created God ? It could have all began with our ancestors the fearful caveman and then passed down through the generations..and now,still in 2011 evolved man still believes ! Thats indoctrination at its best ! There is not one iota of scientific evidence for such an entity.
A God able to know what will happen is also a God capable of making it happen. Or, to look at it another way, if God makes it happen he will know what happens. I think to credit God with just knowing who will believe and making his election of saints on that basis is shortchanging God. That would essentially be making a man's salvation real by his own decision apart from God.. All are guilty of sin. God saves some from sin but not all. You either believe it or you don't.
@LampPlacething We have free will. God knows what is going to happen, but he lives outside of time and he knows the future, but he gave us free will to make our choices. God knows what is going to happen, we don't. God is also reasonable and logical, therefore, we must have free will. This assertion is correct because God never contradicts himself. God wouldn't tell the sluggard to get up and consider the ant, if that sluggard wasn't responsible for doing so.
"choose; either God doesn't know everything, or people don't have free will, which do you want?"
Your assertion and whole hearted confidence with the "very essence of God" is uncalled for. Please please please realize we are not capable of fulling understanding God. There is knowledge we should be satisfied with, THEN there is "knowledge" which we should not get into, because it is too great to grasp and will cause many to stumble!
To dark dark paths this will lead (some) people. Careful.
This chap is right. Science is slowly but surely dismantling God ! Why can't people see how man created God ? It could have all began with our ancestors the fearful caveman and then passed down through the generations..and now,still in 2011 evolved man still believes ! Thats indoctrination at its best ! There is not one iota of scientific evidence for such an entity.
brindow1 4 months ago
A God able to know what will happen is also a God capable of making it happen. Or, to look at it another way, if God makes it happen he will know what happens. I think to credit God with just knowing who will believe and making his election of saints on that basis is shortchanging God. That would essentially be making a man's salvation real by his own decision apart from God.. All are guilty of sin. God saves some from sin but not all. You either believe it or you don't.
DougCameraMan 4 months ago
@LampPlacething We have free will. God knows what is going to happen, but he lives outside of time and he knows the future, but he gave us free will to make our choices. God knows what is going to happen, we don't. God is also reasonable and logical, therefore, we must have free will. This assertion is correct because God never contradicts himself. God wouldn't tell the sluggard to get up and consider the ant, if that sluggard wasn't responsible for doing so.
Caldari1 11 months ago
"choose; either God doesn't know everything, or people don't have free will, which do you want?"
Your assertion and whole hearted confidence with the "very essence of God" is uncalled for. Please please please realize we are not capable of fulling understanding God. There is knowledge we should be satisfied with, THEN there is "knowledge" which we should not get into, because it is too great to grasp and will cause many to stumble!
To dark dark paths this will lead (some) people. Careful.
LampPlaceThing 1 year ago