(August 24, 2013 at 6:03 pm)Sword of Christ Wrote:Quote:Intercessory prayer is a request to God or Jesus to change his mind about the already established plan for the universe and make it go another way.
Oooh now that's a freewill killer right there. No our lives aren't mapped out because we have right here some degree of independence from God. I think it's somewhat vital that we have freewill and there is no way atheism or naturalism would allow us to have it (chemical reaction, neurons, instincts, programming etc). Neither would deterministic theism. The central theme of the Bible as a whole is that we are independent beings with our own independent will but with a morality grounded in God. As for Gods relationship with time I'd recommend reading Lane Craigs book Time and Eternity, God essentially exists in relationship to time as we do while the universe exists. Though can still exist without the universe and exist beyond time. So there is no preset plan for our lives individually and if there were then any change he would make would have been part of the plan anyway.
1. Explain how a creator god cannot have a complete plan.
2. Explain how the creator of time and matter could change his plan, and it not actually be his original unchanged plan.
That's two questions I'd love to hear the answers to.
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