A friend of mine was killed by a drunk driver. To comfort me, someone says "it was god's plan". How can this be? For god to have planned it, that means god would have had to manipulate her to be in that exact place at that exact time. To do that, events around her would have had to conspire to put here there. So, dinner would have had to be late that night, which was controlled by the mother, who was made late by traffic, so all the traffic had to be controlled, and traffic is affected by all the drivers and weather, and this would all have to be controlled since the very instant the universe started. Everything affects everything, so every single event in the universe would have to be controlled in order for my friend to die at the exact moment she did, according to "god's plan".
If this is so, then all is pre-determined and there is no free-will? But believers say we have a freedom of choice? So how can god have a plan for each of us, unless we are all just puppets?
2007-01-25
11:46:12
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