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Stonewall Jackson (media.scored.co)
posted 19 hours ago by Heliocentric on scored.co (+0 / -0 / +49Score on mirror )
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Npc070201 on scored.co
14 hours ago 0 points (+0 / -0 ) 1 child
Because God is outside of time. Think about a yardstick laid out in front of you. That is how we view time. Our lives move along that stick as we age.
God is outside of time. So, the same way you can look at that yardstick laid out in front of you, and you are able to put one finger on the 2 inch mark and another finger on the 28 inch mark. You can have a finger on both at the same time.
In a similar way, God can be present in the past, present and future simultaneously. He can see the end, like how you can see the end of the yardstick.
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EternalJew on scored.co
1 hour ago 0 points (+0 / -0 ) 1 child
Yeah, that's the issue. In God seeing the end means that the 28 inch mark is predetermined. It doesn't matter what I might think when I'm at the 2 inch mark when my path along the stick is already known. If God is already aware what's going to happen along the stick, then the choices I make don't matter.
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genesisSOC on scored.co
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The choice always matters because it's your choice. Ultimately, what you're trying to do is remove the responsibility from your self and your own choices and place it on God instead. He may already know all your choices before He even created you, but *you* still made those choices. He gave you every chance and opportunity to choose better, but *you* did or didn't completely based on your self. You are solely responsible for your self. Not Him.\
When you have pets, do you want a robot manmade machine who just does whatever you program it to, or do you want a real life animal who comes to you of its own free will? You're trying to view God as the dictator, when in reality He gave us the ultimate love of free will. Just because He knows your choices does not make Him responsible for those choices. You still are. And you, right now, right here, today, can start making better choices for Him, which is ultimately for your self and your people.
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