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Quote by: Critter These are questions we will never know until our time comes.
The only answer I have is that God gave us this little thing called free will. Could you imagine, being about to do something morally wrong, and have this voice boom, "No no no, that's not right!" and all of a sudden being picked up by the back of your shirt and scolded?
My take is, God CAN do anything He wants, but has his reasons for what he does.
]I think once we do die everything will suddenly become clear,. and we'll realize, "Ohhh, so THAT'S what this is about!" |
In the South we have quite few churches called "Free Will Baptist." A member explained the faith to me as "God controls everything. We believe in predestination." I did point out that the title was a little contradictory and she explained it as "being free to bend to God's will." As long as "God's will" actually is always good and always understood, I suppose there's no harm. Personally speaking I still have my doubts about though and view the concept as worshiping a puppeteer God, and we're little more than puppets.
We may find out when we die, but I imagine, with a smile, God will quote T. S. Elliot's Prufrock...
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"That is not what I meant, not what I meant at all."
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