View Single Post
(#2 (permalink))
Old
Msoto Msoto is offline
Senior Member
Msoto is an unknown quantity at this point
 
Posts: 1,329
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: NY.
Report Post
Default RE: Free will and predestiny - 04-18-2006, 09:20 AM

Why continue living if infact I will go to heaven or hell?
First as a human being you are not aware of where you will end up. You believe that your actions may constitute you going to either place...but in reality you dont know where you end up. Thus living becomes a task of exercising your free will...attempting to act as best as you see fit to end in either destination.

Because God knows where we will end up and what decisions we will make does not mean that we are also aware of those decisions and where we will end up. He is omniscient that is within His frame of understanding but beyond our frame of understanding.

When I start this thread I dont know what people will add or not add. I might end up being: happy, angered, saddened, frustrated, pleased, enlightened, sparkled, intrigued, spell-bound, amused, indifferent, joyous, humbled, ashamed, excited, elated etc. The responses of course could be all sorts...they could create mixed feelings some ambivalent some not...the responses can be of varying length of varying intensity. So many styles and type of responses....say 1 billion type of different responses and my reactions to them.....now unless I can interpret all this information then I would say living is pointless because life is predictable to me as a human being. However in reality life is not predictable at least not to us human beings with our finite but very large permutations of interactions....but to God it is but pre-destined...because He has the infinite permutations and is aware of them all.
 
Reply With Quote