Monday, February 12, 2018

On predestination and freewill

On predestination and freewill. God is omnipotent there is no doubt regarding that, he knows the future, because Time(past, present, future), Matter(solid, liquid, gas) and Space(height, length, breadth) are not limited factors for God but for us. If it were that everything that happens is because what God has already prepared. We don't have choices or freewill even to Choose him as God, as that option also would not be there, but today we have a choice to choose him or reject him. But the Love does not force and Perfect Love gives freedom of choice. We have to ask ourselves a question, that if I can ask or say about God's predestination, "that everything happens because God has already predestined) am I saying this statement because I had a free choice/freewill or was it already predestined to ask such questions? The later can't be possible(predestination) as it claims to be the ultimate reason for the truth and if you state a contradictory statement to it, it diminishes the truth and diminished your point. So, what about the Omnipotent of God then? How can we say God chooses and also God prepared/decided on people. We as humans know a lot and  we do predict. Say for example, "I know my friend very well, the choice that he makes on the flavor of Ice Cream when we step into Baskin Robins, I am very much aware to serve him eatable when he comes for lunch, so when we have pizzas and rats I am sure that he chooses pizzas. Now, I can't say I am God just because I can pridect theses few things, but If we see through out history on God's predictions only God can predict certain things, as said earlier for God nothing is limited Ex: Jesus' Birth prophesy, anyone could have claimed to be God in Flesh as Jesus did, but if we carefully look into the predictions we can't deny the fact that only Jesus can and have proved to be what he claimed to be, "The Birthplace(Bethlehem) was predicted some 700 to thousands of years before his Birth, His Bloodline(Bloodline of David), Miraculous Birth (Virgin Birth), A Prophet like Moses(Deuteronomy 18:15), 

GENESIS 3:15
THE PROTOEVANGELIUM


etc. And many others can't be altered by anyone, as these are beyond and person. Even if Jesus well planned to do all the things as mentioned to be like Messiah, he had no choice of his Birth, Place, born to Virgin. God being the Omnipotent can predict and prophesy. He does this to show us that only God/He can do this, it tells us about his divine power and authority, many instances he tells us about his Goodness and also to assist us to walk in the right path, to do his will and to warn of the coming destruction or for the destruction/reward for sin.

Peter and the rooster.

Luke 22:54-62 English Standard Version (ESV)

Peter Denies Jesus

54 Then they seized him and led him away, bringing him into the high priest's house, and Peter was following at a distance. 55 And when they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat down among them. 56 Then a servant girl, seeing him as he sat in the light and looking closely at him, said, “This man also was with him.” 57 But he denied it, saying, “Woman, I do not know him.” 58 And a little later someone else saw him and said, “You also are one of them.” But Peter said, “Man, I am not.” 59 And after an interval of about an hour still another insisted, saying, “Certainly this man also was with him, for he too is a Galilean.” 60 But Peter said, “Man, I do not know what you are talking about.” And immediately, while he was still speaking, the rooster crowed. 61 And the Lord turned and looked at Peter. And Peter remembered the saying of the Lord, how he had said to him, “Before the rooster crows today, you will deny me three times.” 62 And he went out and wept bitterly.

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