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To: betty boop
Then it seems to me they are saying more than they really know. For they don't know how you will "turn out," what you will become, etc.; and they don't know how Christ will judge you. For all they know, He may have a very special place in His heart for you....

We are all predestined, right?

1,131 posted on 02/01/2005 7:33:06 AM PST by WildTurkey (When will CBS Retract and Apologize?)
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To: WildTurkey
We are all predestined, right?

Only in the sense that God is omniscient, having total foreknowledge of how all things will turn out. From outside of space and time, from Eternity, He sees everything, comprehensively, instantaneously, simultaneously. But from the human standpoint, it seems to me we do not have this kind of knowledge. We are denizens of space and time, moving towards an uncertain, unknown future. And we possess God's gift of free will. This is a very difficult theological problem, however. My own particular faith tradition does not stress predestination, but free will.

1,139 posted on 02/01/2005 8:02:36 AM PST by betty boop
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