VIBE;8163089 said:
zzombie;8162641 said:
VIBE;8162604 said:
Whatever happened to everything being in order in God's plan? Is this just the chess going in his ways? Hasn't this been "predicted"?
If I answer your question I'll be accused of being a religious zealot
Might as well answer it. You've never really held back in posts.
My sister is a Christian and I asked her this and she told me she doesn't understand how God operates and she cannot answer that question as she's not suited to. I tend to find this to be a problem with most Christian; unable to answer most questions and they brush it off as something that's higher than them.
Not saying that's you, but that's why I asked, to see how people feel about that.
the question you firstly asked is a deeply theological one and has to do with what is believed about the omniscient attributes of god, now views vary among theologians on this but basically there are two general camps
the first for ease of your understanding is the calvinist, they believe totally that all things are in gods control and that every thing that happens is in his had.
the other i will call the arminians/open theism they basically reject total predestination and believe in freewill.
Now these are two different ends of the spectrum and all christians fall someplace within them.
Me personally i lean towards arminian/open theism which means that from my understanding the bible teaches that everything is not set in stone god the only thing set in stone are the things that god has determined through this omnipotence will happen, everything else is open and while god was total knowledge of all these possibilities we choose which one will be coming into reality.
The reason why your sister does not know how god works is because no one can with 100% know that, The bible can teach you how god reacts and through that you can learn his personality and you can learn how the kingdom of god works and by kingdom of god i mean how god rulership works. Most christians do not study theology they just study the bible so they know god but they don't understand anything on a deeper level.