RE: Free will and predestiny -
04-25-2006, 09:44 PM
>Faith should not be devoid of reason.
Milanya, this is where we part. You are a christian and believe in God's existence(have faith). Could you please explain to me where God came from? The moment you answer that, u'll realize that the above statement doesnt make sense. In other words, I dont expect you to come with a provable formula on how God came to being. Thus, your faith in Him is actually devoid of reason. Which brings me to this passage Mwananchi posted.
"One thing that is certain is that you cannot defend faith. It is an assured defeat trying to convince anyone using logic that a belief in something (read bible, Koran, etc) is enough. Debunking any assertion in the bible Koran, etc is easy and winning such an argument is a given. My point to believrs would be that since they claim God is un-understandable, there is no way then you can justify anything he does through reasoning".
Secondly, there are pagans that have yet to hear the word of God and willing to listen. Those ones are the ones the bible says "He shall not come back until his word has reached all corners of the world". There are also pagans e.g Atlian, Safina and etc who have heard the word but rejected it and have chosen to campaign against the word. These people you cant do much about them. The bible says let those with ears hear and those with eyes see. The road to heaven is a narrow way so dont worry so much that there are pagans who will reject the word.
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