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To: scripter; D-fendr
God knows where everyone spends eternity and of course God knows everything about everything, but that does not equate to God creating some for Heaven and some for Hell.

If God knew everything prior to creating Scripter, then He also knew Scripter's destiny. Had He not wanted you created, then He would not have created you. Therefore, you were created "for" your destiny.

We believe, since God is Love, that all His purposes are Just. (Justice being one form of Love.)

10,532 posted on 02/15/2007 10:57:02 AM PST by xzins
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To: xzins

Or he could have created Scripter's parents with free will and with it they chose to have Scripter with God-given free will and so on and so on, all the way back and all the way forward.

That Scripter is a degenerate reprobate can be both foreknown and still partly a result of free will choices along the way.


10,536 posted on 02/15/2007 11:02:35 AM PST by D-fendr
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To: xzins; D-fendr
If God knew everything prior to creating Scripter, then He also knew Scripter's destiny. Had He not wanted you created, then He would not have created you. Therefore, you were created "for" your destiny.

Yes, God knew my destiny before He created me. Yes, if God didn't want me created he wouldn't have created me. And yes, I was created for my destiny. Furthermore, I would say this falls under the definition of omniscience. But I would most definitely disagree with your previous statement that omniscience equates to double predestination. It's quite tempting but I won't speculate here...

We believe, since God is Love, that all His purposes are Just. (Justice being one form of Love.)

Uh-huh. But omniscience (something I believe about God) does not equate to double predestination (something I don't believe about God). :-)

I'm going to have to limit any further responses due to time constraints, my job, my life, speculation about some things, etc...

10,541 posted on 02/15/2007 11:10:42 AM PST by scripter ("If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone." Romans 12:18)
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