I don't see what choosing to eat or not eat breakfast has to do with whether or not I live under freedom or tyranny, what I do for a living, who I marry and associate with, etc.
We have a tiny amount of free will within certain constraints. But we are still puppets serving some puppetmaster.
I'm sorry, it's just nonsense. I just cannot engage in this type of doublethink. It is cult rhetoric.
You can't hold a belief in an ultimate creator pre-planning an ultimate plan whilst simultaneously also believing we have any kind of free will. If you are saying we are all scripted to go from A but end up at B no matter what, but we are "free" because it is our choice how to get there, it is still not free will is it? Not really.
I agree. Too many Christians pray for specific outcomes. I don't think "God" works that way.
If our lives are supposed to be pre-planned then we are puppets with not much free will.
I don't see what choosing to eat or not eat breakfast has to do with whether or not I live under freedom or tyranny, what I do for a living, who I marry and associate with, etc.
We have a tiny amount of free will within certain constraints. But we are still puppets serving some puppetmaster.
I'm sorry, it's just nonsense. I just cannot engage in this type of doublethink. It is cult rhetoric.
You can't hold a belief in an ultimate creator pre-planning an ultimate plan whilst simultaneously also believing we have any kind of free will. If you are saying we are all scripted to go from A but end up at B no matter what, but we are "free" because it is our choice how to get there, it is still not free will is it? Not really.
It's semantic games.
God can work that way but you must remember this life is all a big test.