i thought about this a looong time ago, but alas, no answer...

[do_voodoo]

11 years of catholic schooling, and this is what comes out of my head....

according to christianity....

god has a plan, right?

humans have free will, right?

if god has a plan that causes everything to happen.....does that eliminate our free will?

is this a legitimate assumption?

Comments

[xpandora_x]

yes

[sailor_nic]

its a fact that christianity is full of contradictions

[erac]

the bible makes it pretty clear that god fully gives us free will and he also fully has a plan for our life, so it's kind of hard to comprehend....generally speaking, i guess you can look at it as god knows our plan but at the same time gives us free will.

or as someone once explained it to me, think of it as a book....since god lives outside of time, he doesnt look at our lives chronologically,...so you can read an entire book from beginning to end and then after youre done you can go back and flip through the pages and still know the ending. so in this case, god can be whatever or work in whatever period he wants but still know our ending?? that idea might be really confusing though because i have no idea how to put that into the right words...

i guess, basically, he wants us to do certain things but sometimes we disobey with our free will...like adam and eve.

but overall, he uses everything we do for his glory and his plan since his plan is to prosper you

wow confusing but i hope that helped....??

(hi kyle, it's care....)

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[do_voodoo]

hey

hah, it kinda made sense...im not sure

[erac]

(longest comment ever.)

[stoxxx]

priests like little boys kyle, so watch your ass, literally.

;-)

[do_voodoo]

im over 15, so i think they wont be interested in me, but ill keep a close watch on it