Insert Faith, Get Gumballs
Lately I've been on a serious evangelical kick, attacking other Christians for not acting like Christians should act. The hatemongering and fearmongering and callousness and just outright stupidity that my fellow Christians consistently show toward the GLBT community, the working class, and really just anyone who isn't an uber-Conservative middle- ( Read more... )
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If one assumes a) God exists and b) God is benevolently disposed toward human beings (again, per Jeremiah 29:11 and others) then He had no choice but to give us free will
Think about it. If free will exists but God has our lives mapped out for us, we're nothing more than pets. We're certainly not the crowning achievement of a loving Creator who wants a close fellowship with us, collectively and individually.
If there is no free will then we are just puppets. Whats worse, if there is no free will then John Calvin is right- and if he is right then God is not benevolently disposed toward humans at all. How could He be, if He is willing to create untold numbers of people just to condemn them to Hell forever? Not even the old Greek and Roman gods were that cruel.
So, yeah. There is no dotted line through life God has traced out for us. There is no reason to rely on God for anything we can do ourselves.
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