Predestination vs Free will

Predestination vs Free will.

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[Intrepidman]

Bad lighting?

[DustySpringIII]

Why do your videos look like you're sitting in the dark?

[NewDirection4us]

God's knowswhat will happen because he has decreed that it shall happen. God is not learning the movie as it unfolds; God has written the script, chosen the cast, and knows the beginning to end. There is no time constraints on God. We think in terms of time, because we believe we have a limited amount of it. Time is nothing more than a measurement of planets moving. But God moves the planets. God is eternal, always was and always will be. We think in terms of what we know, which is very little

[NewDirection4us]

Good video. You got a grasp on it. A fish could swim in the ocean his entire life, go anywhere he wants, never ending freedom to swim. He thinks he has freedom to swim without restrictions but in reality he is limited to the ocean water on planet Earth. He is limited, he just doesn't know it. We are like that fish, we think we have freewill but in reality our freewill decisions are confined within the permissiveness of God's will.

[milkman589]

Free will is better then fantasy, but Free Willy was a movie from the 90's. Willie Mays played baseball. Willie Nelson committed tax evasion and tried to get off clear and free. Willie Wright flew the first plane. Uncle Willy makes popcorn and Wilbur was some pig. Frito Lay makes chips and freedom was established in 1776. Lincoln freed the slaves, but Wilson swam away from Tom Hanks, in Cast Away. SO i guess Wilson is free.

This has been another pointless rant, brought to you by milkman!

[totallyturtles]

no.... Your thinking of HYPER calvanisim. Regular calvanisim doesn't deny free will.

[Muzaloth]

excellent U2b vid on this subject.. I have to believe there is no such condition as free will, at least for all of us who are born in sin.. although many individuals think within their heart they choose their own destiny it is a thought born out of a prideful ego and can be discerned as such in the light of our heavenly Father.. our conflict will dissolve when we realize that His will must be done so His kingdom will come.

[MightyTiny]

...I think you might enjoy learning a bit about other concepts of God, especially within the Judeo-Christian religion, that are not as anthropomorphic as what I've heard in your ideas so far, as the very anthropomorphic nature of God belief that is dominant in the West is the thing that leads to the abundant contradictions that make the whole belief look so absurd from the "outside".

[MightyTiny]

Intrepidman - I would heartily recommend to you a book called "A History Of God" by Karen Armstrong (a former nun, who describes herself as "freelance monotheist"). I'm just reading the last few pages, and the book really gives a good idea of the various ways God has been viewed both in Christianity and Judaism, as well as Islam...

[MightyTiny]

...The only way to preserve free will is if the distinction between future and past is real and absolute, a clear distinction where the future is unclear, no matter what your perspective or vantage point. If you want to hang on to terminology, and to free will, then that would at the very least require defining "omniscience" as "possessing all knowledge that is knowable", and defining the future as fundamentally unknowable, and thus uncovered by the term "omniscient".