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To: stuartcr
Doesn’t He know all this beforehand?

If He knows beforehand - then our lives truly are pointless. We have Free Agency, and are put on earth to choose whether we will follow the Divine plan, or will we suscumb to our baser nature. Some of us are inherently 'good' and seek after goodness; others are evil and prey upon the weak for their own benefit. Our rewards in the hereafter will reflect the decisions we have made.

If we are fore-ordained to succeed or fail; then the entire exercise is utterly pointless, it is suffering for the sheer entertainment of a deity - as our suffering on earth would serve no other purpose.

14 posted on 01/25/2011 2:23:58 PM PST by Hodar (Who needs laws .... when this "feels" so right?)
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To: Hodar

You don’t believe that God knows our futures?

Why would that make our lives pointless? Succeed or fail at what?


15 posted on 01/26/2011 8:42:35 AM PST by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different)
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