what is being taken to it ultimate end for only logic to conclude
ever had that feeling where you feel someone is just jumping into the first ship leaving the harbor and not looking at any others leaving a little later? Well i have that exact feeling. However, for some reason I don't think they see the same way I do nor will they ever try. I mean I can understand about this guy being great and all, but I just think you need to excerise a little more patience in a choice for a guy when this is the first you ever dated, as well as the first who has actually been worth dating. I mean for one she has never stepped foot outside of home and never experienced anything else. Not like gone to college, nor does she have any desire to. I just feel as if she is settling for less. I mean better guys will come along, and probably in a better way. I mean it says something about a guy when the only way he gets a date is through an online dating service. But even with that, and however great he is, he is still the first. I mean this may sound totally stupid, but when the whole reason of you searching for a guy is to get married, then I would honestly see if there is a better catch first until you are proved otherwise. I mean even Christ did the same thing with his death, he was to die either way and he had plenty of chances to die. However, he said, "My time has not yet come." I'm not saying to ditch it for the sake of patience, I'm saying look at it to see if its the right thing at the right time. Christ's time did not yet come because it would not have happened the way God wanted it, and thus would not have been perfect. Because of those two factors it would not have glorified God. That is our chief end, to glorify God. I have excercised patience my whole life in finding girls, and I was sold on some at times, but I left the door open for my view to be changed, and what do you know it has. Why did i leave the door open? Because if I wwas sold out and wrong, then God would not have been glorified and I would not be happy because of that manifested through other things. It is only right to not get to entangled to fast, because then you have no chance to look around, its test driving the first car at the lot and buying it, you didn't take a look at any other car, nor did you give yourself a chance to. I only wish she took my advice and if it still was him, I'd be ok with it, only because I know there'd be no other.
Now to something else a little less depressing for me. Predestination. I have really been pondering this a lot as of late, as in how are we still held accountable for our sin if God's will is perfect and as it should be? Well it's because we have a choice. AH! But how do you have one if you are predestined? Well thats what I am going to attempt to explain. God refers to himself as the great I AM in exodus. What does that really say? That God is, in God's existence there is no present, past future, all of it simply is for him in our time. In other words in our time God is fully present similtaneously at every point in time. Therefore, that when I was born, God is there now just as God is here now as I am writing this, just as God will be there now just as I start taking my exam. This to say that there is no parallel universe of the ifs. Because if did not happen, therefore everything is exactly as it should be.
So with God being prefectly and fully present at every point in our existence, everything must remain the same. Just as if you changed something in the past, just like in Back to the Future, it changes something in the present. So if God is present in the future, everything is already as it should be. Which would conclude that whatever choice is presented to us, we are predestined to make that choice. Pretty much we have a choice, however, this choice is already known in what is chosen. God is at the point in time when we make that choice, and every choice. So he already knows which one we choose. But God is also already at some point in time down the end of the road, and knows what happens because of the choice. Therefore the otherside to that choice didn't happen, couldn't happen.
God's plan, and God's will and it's all tied to God's sovereignity. God is God over everything, there is nothing outside of Him. In saying that, God controls everything, even our existence. So whatever happens in the existence of man, then God wanted it to be exactly that. He is the potter forming the clay, and we are part of the clay. So in using this to support predestination, we don't have a choice about how it comes out, because in whatever comes out, it is the way God wants it. Then how are we accountable for sin?
Well we must look inside the big picture, and focus down on us. Focus down on to a decision time in our life. Can we say that, in support of predestination, in that decision and all of the factors externally effecting us present and past basically predisposed us to chosing some way 100%? No, by no means, then we wouldn't be presented with a choice in how it comes down to our point of view. This is how we are held accountable, because even though God is God over all, the choice still comes down to us, and our consciousness, and our ignorance of the ultimate plan for us. When we chose we chose according to our will, or what we think God's will is for our life. So needless to say, we cannot choose 100% in any choice. In hindsight, sure we can say that, but when it comes to decision time its never 100%. If anything its 10/90 split, 50/50, split, etc
So we are held accountable because we have a choice at decision time. Because we are in the now and not looking at the whole, therefore our decision is based on what we know and the fact that because we have a consciousness, we consciously make the descision, and we are conscious in all of this. We know, we have knowledge. However, no matter what choice we make, whatever path we chose, it is as it should be, there is no if.
Now to something else a little less depressing for me. Predestination. I have really been pondering this a lot as of late, as in how are we still held accountable for our sin if God's will is perfect and as it should be? Well it's because we have a choice. AH! But how do you have one if you are predestined? Well thats what I am going to attempt to explain. God refers to himself as the great I AM in exodus. What does that really say? That God is, in God's existence there is no present, past future, all of it simply is for him in our time. In other words in our time God is fully present similtaneously at every point in time. Therefore, that when I was born, God is there now just as God is here now as I am writing this, just as God will be there now just as I start taking my exam. This to say that there is no parallel universe of the ifs. Because if did not happen, therefore everything is exactly as it should be.
So with God being prefectly and fully present at every point in our existence, everything must remain the same. Just as if you changed something in the past, just like in Back to the Future, it changes something in the present. So if God is present in the future, everything is already as it should be. Which would conclude that whatever choice is presented to us, we are predestined to make that choice. Pretty much we have a choice, however, this choice is already known in what is chosen. God is at the point in time when we make that choice, and every choice. So he already knows which one we choose. But God is also already at some point in time down the end of the road, and knows what happens because of the choice. Therefore the otherside to that choice didn't happen, couldn't happen.
God's plan, and God's will and it's all tied to God's sovereignity. God is God over everything, there is nothing outside of Him. In saying that, God controls everything, even our existence. So whatever happens in the existence of man, then God wanted it to be exactly that. He is the potter forming the clay, and we are part of the clay. So in using this to support predestination, we don't have a choice about how it comes out, because in whatever comes out, it is the way God wants it. Then how are we accountable for sin?
Well we must look inside the big picture, and focus down on us. Focus down on to a decision time in our life. Can we say that, in support of predestination, in that decision and all of the factors externally effecting us present and past basically predisposed us to chosing some way 100%? No, by no means, then we wouldn't be presented with a choice in how it comes down to our point of view. This is how we are held accountable, because even though God is God over all, the choice still comes down to us, and our consciousness, and our ignorance of the ultimate plan for us. When we chose we chose according to our will, or what we think God's will is for our life. So needless to say, we cannot choose 100% in any choice. In hindsight, sure we can say that, but when it comes to decision time its never 100%. If anything its 10/90 split, 50/50, split, etc
So we are held accountable because we have a choice at decision time. Because we are in the now and not looking at the whole, therefore our decision is based on what we know and the fact that because we have a consciousness, we consciously make the descision, and we are conscious in all of this. We know, we have knowledge. However, no matter what choice we make, whatever path we chose, it is as it should be, there is no if.