sapphi_snake said:
I was gonna say something nasty, but I'll control myself. |
That's good, because usually you do and it makes you look like a jackass.
He's explaining it poorly but you don't really need to have faith to understand it... it's actually really quite straightfoward when you cut to the heart of Christianity.
Man is inherently good.
Those who find god and themselves and adhere to there better and true nature. While those who choose not to adhere to there better nature freely choose to act wrong and as such find themselves outside of god because rather then focus on the spiritual and the each other. They focus on the physical, and themselves.
Believer or not, it's fairly easy to see how that ties up everything and largely explains everything including "Why do good things happen to bad people."
Really the whole free choice vs divine will thing is better questioned under the "God knows what choice your going to make so how is it free will arguement" that is made against evangelicism and that suggests full true ominpotent god.
Though even that isn't really a contradiction. Since if I travel to the future one week and find that you decide to have a diet coke over a coke, then go back to my time....
I've in no way negated your free will.
