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digitalbuddah

im tired

Apr 16, 2005 01:25

so its been good stuff since i last updated. i went on the ACF mens retreat which was an all around great time. we arrived at tyrone on friday night and played basketball with the kids of the Joshua House which is a Christian community center type thing in tyrone. the kids were a lot of fun. after that we went back to the church where we were ( Read more... )

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i had some more questions....as usual jpunkin5 April 16 2005, 21:24:11 UTC

i think about predestination and fate, if u will, sometimes. im lost pretty much. does God know when u are born whether or not how ur life will turn out? does he really know whos going to heaven or hell when they die? does he know when and where u are going to die. i know i sound really dumb and silly. im just trying to sort things out in my head. im not criticizing religion or anything of that nature. im just questioning. do we have a set destiny that we dont know of yet? i know God gave us free will to choose but why doesnt he do something so we pick good over evil, like give us a sign or something? is it predetermined what our fate is or can we change it? i think about this a lot. ive changed for the better i think, was it fate or destiny and God knew along i was gonna change, or did he realize i was making bad choices and decided to intervene and wake me up? i dunno if u have answers on these. id like to hear ur opinion and u were not online when i wrote this and i didnt want to forget my train of thought. ill catch u laters ( ... )

Re: i had some more questions....as usual digitalbuddah April 16 2005, 23:08:22 UTC

God knows everything. Before you were born, He knew whether or not you were going to Heaven or Hell. This does not mean He decided for you that you're going to one or the other. God is uncreated and supernatural... time is no restraint on Him. He's the Great I Am. God just IS. Because He is outside time, the past the present and the future are all open to Him at all times. But again, this does not mean He decides the future, bc we have free will. Its like when TV Guide comes out... you know whats going to be on tv in the future, but you didnt decide. Predestination would say that God has chosen some ppl for Heaven and others for Hell, which i see as a big problem, bc it is our sin that sends us to Hell and not God. Also, the purpose of our lives is to glorify God. if we are predetermined to love Him and go to Heaven, its not really love, bc we would have no say in the matter. similarly, its not glorifying to God for Him to condemn His creations to Hell without a chance. and if everyones fate is decided by God, then it really makes no ( ... )

Re: i had some more questions....as usual swtheart804 April 19 2005, 23:21:39 UTC

hey jesse, im bored so im commenting to something you wrote in your comment which went " so God has given us plenty of signs, but its up to us to accept or reject those signs. and He also works in other ways of divine intervention, but again, it is up to us what we do with that intervention. for instance, you could have ignored God and kept on doing what you were doing, but thankfully you didnt ( ... )