[milanya]

It is hard to think outside of the religious box - I have tried to let go of fear and do it. How can I ever understand my faith if I cling blindly to it? If you want something to be true really badly you will find ways of justifying it.

Questions to ask oneself about predestination and omniscience from wikipedia:
1. Is God's predestinating decision based on a knowledge of His own will, or does it arise from a knowledge of whatever will happen?
2. How particular is God's prior decision: is it concerned with particular persons and events, or is it limited to broad categories of people and things?
3. How free is God in effecting His part in the eventual outcome?

about man's will:
1. Assuming that an individual had no choice in who, when and where to come into being: How are the choices of existence determined by what he is?
2. Assuming that not all possible choices are available to him: How capable is the individual to desire all choices available, in order to choose from among them?
3. How capable is an individual to put into effect what he desires?


Some philosophers argue that man has free will, and that his free will is predestined to lead him to God. However, man gets enslaved in sin and loses his free will