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originally posted by: purplemer
a reply to: Eagleyedobserver
Destiny and free will are the same thing.
originally posted by: Eagleyedobserver
When these things occur to a high % of the worlds population simultaneously maybe thats it?
The Bible’s Viewpoint
Is Your Life Predestined?
... “Maybe it was fate,” said a newspaper report of the incident.
MANY people feel that whatever happens to them, good or bad, has been decided by a force greater than themselves. For example, the 16th-century Reformer John Calvin wrote: “We define predestination as the eternal design of God, whereby he determined what he wanted to do with each man. For he did not create them all in the same condition, but foreordains some to everlasting life and others to eternal damnation.”
Does God really ordain ahead of time what our actions and our final destiny are going to be? What does the Bible teach?
The “Logic” of Predestination
Some who believe in predestination reason basically as follows: God is omniscient. He knows everything, even what is going to happen in the future. He knows what each person is going to do with his life, and he already knows the exact moment and manner of each person’s death. So, according to their thinking, when the time comes for an individual to make a decision, his choice cannot be other than the way God has foreseen and foreordained it; otherwise, God would not be all-knowing. Does this reasoning seem sound to you? Consider what its logical consequences would be.
If some force has already determined your future, then trying to take care of yourself is useless. Choosing to smoke or not to smoke would make no difference to your health or that of your children. Wearing a seat belt while riding in an automobile would have no effect on your safety. But this is faulty logic. Statistics show that people who take precautions suffer fewer fatal consequences. Carelessness can result in tragedy.
Consider another line of reasoning. If God chooses to foreknow everything, then even before he made Adam and Eve, he would have known that they would disobey him. But when God told Adam that he must not eat from “the tree of the knowledge of good and bad” or he would die, did God already know that Adam would eat from it? (Genesis 2:16, 17) When God told the first couple: “Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth and subdue it, and have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and every living creature that is moving upon the earth,” did he know that their wonderful prospect of life in a paradise was doomed to failure? Of course not.—Genesis 1:28.
Taken to its logical conclusion, the idea that God foreknows all decisions would mean that he is responsible for all that happens—including wars, injustices, and suffering. Is that possible? A clear answer is provided by what God says about himself.
“You Must Choose”
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originally posted by: NoCorruptionAllowed
It is what you choose to do right now, today, and every single day hereafter that determines your future destiny.
Continuing to do wrong unto yourself and others will cause your destiny to be a failed destiny.
Watching the actions of current political parties illustrates perfectly what an ongoing FAILED destiny looks like.
"Continuing to do wrong unto yourself and others will cause your destiny to be a failed destiny."
It is what you choose to do right now, today, and every single day hereafter that determines your future destiny.
The successful politicians (Trump) are following the Bible word for word.
originally posted by: TheConstruKctionofLight
Only insomuch as the perception of Trumps actions affirms your worldview.
Could you in retrospect say the same about Bush when he said its gods mandate that they go in and attack Iraq?
Funny thing in my mind is that nothing really changes after 10,000 years. Civilizations come and go.
The "redeemer" is a common theme in many eschatologies.
What if nothing really changes - just a new religion comes along to replace the old, old gods renamed, new cults formed....and yet below the surface.....this existence is still a slave planet....ruled by a demiurge.
Why aren't we allowed to remember the old civs? Why does the planet keep getting reset? Why is it so difficult to escape this Matrix?
originally posted by: TheConstruKctionofLight
Why aren't we allowed to remember the old civs? Why does the planet keep getting reset? Why is it so difficult to escape this Matrix?
Only insomuch as the perception of Trumps actions affirms your worldview.
originally posted by: TheConstruKctionofLight
I'll repeat this again
Only insomuch as the perception of Trumps actions affirms your worldview.
There is no proof that Trump is any different than any other Globalist.
Using the name "god" and viewing it through a Christians perspective doesn't change the fact that Christianity is the old Roman Empire updated to version 2.