I gave you scripture and explained it in 1995, and you respond with sneering? If you have an interpretation of these passages that accounts for every verse as mine does, I'd be curious to see it. I do not mind a comic relief either, if that is what you've got.
We are lucky. As to what would have happened if Eve changes her mind, or Mary, or Judas, the scripture does not tell. Perhaps God does not want us to know?
We are lucky. As to what would have happened if Eve changes her mind, or Mary, or Judas, the scripture does not tell. Perhaps God does not want us to know?
Although I tried, I don't know if I was actually funny or not, but I assure you that my "sneer switch" was turned off when I posted. :) I was trying to be half smart-aleck, but I was also trying to support Harley's statement.
I was trying to get to a key issue of to what degree is God dependent on man? We both agree that God already knows everything that's going to happen and all that we'll do. The question is: does God alter, or even make, His plan BASED on what human decisions are, or does God make His true and perfect plan from the beginning and "arrange" for it to come true? I simply vote for the latter.
We appear to differ on who deserves the credit for the unfolding of world history exactly in line with ancient prophecy. I was pointing out that it cannot be by accident or luck that God wins EVERY time! Are there not more than 250 messianic prophecies (major and minor) in the OT? How do you explain that they ALL came true if any one man in the pipeline (over hundreds of years) could have thwarted the whole thing by choosing incorrectly? I cannot explain it, other than, it wasn't luck. Why in the universe would God leave anything to luck?