| Jicale said: God can see past, present and the FUTURE. God gave us free will. We can make our own choices. Problem is to see into the future would mean we are only following a set path and we dont really make our own choices. You see if we use free will that would mean god wouldnt be able to see what choice we make , taking away his ability to see into the future. So it comes down to do we have free will and god cant see into the future or are we following as set path so god can? |
Your first two sentences are a contradiction.
And, reading the rest of what you said... you see that it is too.. Anyway, I've always looked at it from a movie perspective. You know what's going on in the moment, and what happened in the past, but, you don't know how the movie will end unless someone told you, or you'd seen it before, but, regardless, unless it's being recorded live, the entire movie has been scripted, and finished. You're just.. In the middle.
Another way to look at it.. There are so many variables in life interacting, it would be inconcievable for a person to be able to take each one of them, and tell you how they would interact... Maybe in a controlled envoirnment...
However, just because things are pre-determined, doesn't mean it's without purpose. It just means that, on another *level* you've already decided how you want your life to be, and the idea was to live life forgetting you had the power to have such a great effect on it in the first place. So, the more you believe you've got free will, in a sense, the better.. That's the whole point.
I'm probably starting to say too much... I'll stop now. If you want to find the answer, search for something that doesn't break the laws of possibility. Until the time comes, this is all else I will say on the matter.
I'll say that, Millenium is right about perfection being boring, that's also another point to things happening on another level, and forgetting... Now, I'm really going to shut up now, before you people make me say too much...
