Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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Does God Know Everything Before It Happens?
I have been thinking a lot about this over the past few weeks. If God can see every action we are going to make in our futures and how these relate to the futures of everyone else, does this mean that is the best of all possible worlds available to us? It is enough to give one a headache. Maybe Immanuel Kant was right in that we impose space and time on things and these would have no limitation on God. http://www.iep.utm.edu/kantmeta/ |
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The Beatlemaniacs of The Villages meet every Friday 10:00am at the O'Dell Recreation Center. "I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend." - Thomas Jefferson to William Hamilton, April 22, 1800. |
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I believe that God has a book with your birth date and your death date.
What you decide to do with your life between these dates is your own doing. You can stay on a righteous path and please God by following the bible or what ever precepts your religion adheres to or you can fall off the path by getting waylaid by the devil's ways - as was Eve in the Garden of Eden. Hopefully, those that wander off the path to Heaven will see the light and get back on the right path before the death date arrives. Z
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Jacksonville, Florida Andover, New Jersey The Villages Second star to the right, then straight on 'til morning. |
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God is a concept a thought,a feeling. A person's belief shapes who God is and what he can do. I once asked a priest this question. It is said that God can do anything and all things. The priest said this is true. So, I replied how do you interpret this question. If God can do anything can He build a boulder so heavy that even he could not pick it up? The priest took umbrage at my question. He misunderstood my intent. He regained his composure and then suggested the question was cheap trickery.
I had always believed that such a statement about God can be constructed because humans think too often in linear terms or because we think of events in a dichotomy. Essentially like every person ever born I too have struggled with this concept of God. I have come to a compromise with myself that i will never know the truth while my heart beats. If God exists he knows my heart and if he knows my heart and He does exist then my future is in his safe hands PS Anyone interested in explaining the boulder puzzle? |
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I was trying to figure out what is worse, ignorance or apathy. I concluded that I don't know and don't care. The days are long...... the years are short. |
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Isaiah 55:8-11, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." |
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Was never asked by my philosophy prof. Just asked , "Why?", first day of class and told us we had until the end of the year to answer it. Easy A.
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Army/embassy brat - traveled too much to mention Moved here from SF Bay Area (East Bay) "There are only two ways to live your life: One is as though nothing is a miracle; the other is as though everything is a miracle." Albert Einstein |
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Genesis 1:9-13 On the 3rd day of creation God gathered the water together so that dry land would appear on the earth. This was the first time for clay, sand, mountains and stones. On the land God placed all kinds of vegetation. |
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He knows every hair on our head, and every sparrow that falls from the sky.
"With men, this is impossible. With GOD all things are possible". New version, "Man plans, GOD laughs".
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Excellent post!!! GOD sure does work in mysterious ways!!!
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And the Cubs' fans keep singing this song hoping to get the first WS since 1908. Maybe, God does not play baseball? LOL |
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106 and still counting. Steve Bartman, ( ![]() nuff said..... back to GOD.
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"It doesn't cost "nuttin", to be nice". ![]() I just want to do the right thing! Uncle Joe, (my hero). |
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Because?
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