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To: stuartcr

God knowing what we are going to do, and causing it to happen, are two entirely different things.


4 posted on 06/20/2005 7:28:10 AM PDT by jkl1122
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To: jkl1122

How do you know? I believe it's the same thing.

If God is all-powerful, He knows what someone is going to do, the creator of all things, and cannot be wrong...then how can someone do anything different than what God knows he will do?


5 posted on 06/20/2005 7:33:17 AM PDT by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
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To: jkl1122

***God knowing what we are going to do, and causing it to happen, are two entirely different things***


The Parable of the Talents

14"For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants[c] and entrusted to them his property. 15To one he gave five talents,[d] to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. 16He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. 17So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. 18But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money. 19Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. 20And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, 'Master, you delivered to me five talents; here I have made five talents more.' 21His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.[e] You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.' 22And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, 'Master, you delivered to me two talents; here I have made two talents more.' 23His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.' 24He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, 'Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, 25so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is yours.' 26But his master answered him, 'You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sowed and gather where I scattered no seed? 27Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. 28So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents. 29For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. 30And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'


God will judge us based on what WE have done with waht He has given us.


18 posted on 06/20/2005 8:47:41 AM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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