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Permalink Reply by Doug Reardon on May 5, 2009 at 10:39am

If you can believe there's an invisible man who lives in the sky, who spoke the universe into being, believing anything else including contraction, is trivial.

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Permalink Reply by Omnicide on May 5, 2009 at 10:58am

God-given free will isn't so much of a problem unless you try to combine it with that ever present "divine plan".
The paradox is then obvious; it's not really free will if every choice we make is inherently a part of the plan.

The real question is: Can human will derail God's plan or change God's future? If not, than there is no free will. (Or there is no divine plan)

Also, it says something about the character of God that actions contrary to our plans fall upon our shoulders but actions contrary to his plans are forbidden to the point of impossibility. We here on earth call that tyrannical dictatorship.

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Permalink Reply by luis on September 4, 2009 at 5:51am

you have the freewill to choose His plan or not. PEACE!!!!!!

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Permalink Reply by 3equ3cp1fsw0n on July 9, 2011 at 10:51pm

Don't you know better than to ask for a rational explanation for things written in the Bible? This is a question I would expect to see on a Christian forum; not an atheist forum. Is this some kind of Jedi mind trick question? lol

 

In any case, if you want to know how I believe Christians rationalize this, it goes something like this: God works in mysterious ways.  

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Permalink Reply by Carol on July 10, 2011 at 1:27am

Yes, “God works in mysterious ways” seems to be the way that Christians explain the unexplainable. 

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