RE: Jesus' Mission....
November 18, 2019 at 7:10 pm
(This post was last modified: November 18, 2019 at 7:17 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The religious say many things, especially in their rush to make sense of things that don't. The "freedom" to do just one thing, as we've been discussing, is no freedom at all. It doesn't take any sort of extremist to say simply, and without prevarication, that they don't believe in free will. Just a person comfortable in the content of their beliefs.
Trying to make sense of free will and omniscience is only an issue for people who are already, to whatever extent, uncomfortable with the lack of either thing. A god who punishes the "innocent", for example. Or a god that doesn't actually know how everything will turn out. However, for every possible objection there is a nutter with an answer. Salvation has nothing to do with a persons specific innocence or guilt. All are born into the grave, all must be redeemed, or die.
Trying to make sense of free will and omniscience is only an issue for people who are already, to whatever extent, uncomfortable with the lack of either thing. A god who punishes the "innocent", for example. Or a god that doesn't actually know how everything will turn out. However, for every possible objection there is a nutter with an answer. Salvation has nothing to do with a persons specific innocence or guilt. All are born into the grave, all must be redeemed, or die.
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