RE: Better reasons to quit Christianity
August 20, 2012 at 7:49 pm
(This post was last modified: August 20, 2012 at 7:54 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
We can discuss it the moment your definition involves a choice. Not being comfortable with declaring what something is (when I don't possess such knowledge) does not prevent me from listing the things that it is not.
Let me help you rephrase the next statement into something that resembles sense.
"Don't impose a god unless you're sure that it's true".
In what way would you be making choices if the future were predestined? God doesn't create our genes, as such whether or not our genes have anything to do with our choices has nothing to do with whether or not god determines anything. Did we chose what we wanted, or is the future predestined? -In this scenario- choice and predestination do not work together, because they cannot, but I understand that it is important for you to imagine that they can.
It doesn't matter how the precog experiences the future, or from what vantage point they can view it, that doesn't alter precognition's (and predestination's) implications for "choice". If god, btw, uses his knowledge of a person to make a guess, than I suppose that makes me a precog as well, because I can handle that. Not sounding like the superhero he's made out to be, gotta be honest.
Let me help you rephrase the next statement into something that resembles sense.
"Don't impose a god unless you're sure that it's true".
In what way would you be making choices if the future were predestined? God doesn't create our genes, as such whether or not our genes have anything to do with our choices has nothing to do with whether or not god determines anything. Did we chose what we wanted, or is the future predestined? -In this scenario- choice and predestination do not work together, because they cannot, but I understand that it is important for you to imagine that they can.
It doesn't matter how the precog experiences the future, or from what vantage point they can view it, that doesn't alter precognition's (and predestination's) implications for "choice". If god, btw, uses his knowledge of a person to make a guess, than I suppose that makes me a precog as well, because I can handle that. Not sounding like the superhero he's made out to be, gotta be honest.
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