be honest and real future tellers...I dont get that one bit. I want my future in God's hands but i want a piece of it, i dont want my life to be like a recorded event, I want it to be like a live event where anything can happen no holds bar, i dont want my life played out by anybody i want my decisions to affect me and so on.
2006-07-25 20:20:00 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The fact that God knows the future does not imply that He interferes with your free will.
2006-07-25 20:23:15 · answer #1 · answered by mwrc09 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, just to let you know. the future can change at any time. Fortune tellers can possibly see the future, but it is the future as you are leading your life at that moment. God knows our future, but does not control it. He wants us to learn and grow in this life, not walk around like zombies under his control. We have the ability to make choices and chance the future with those choices if we want. Whatever you do not learn in this life, you will have to in the next life. God gives us these many lives for those chances to learn. Rely on yourself, and build your spirituality, it will take you further than anything else spiritually.
Blessed Be
2006-07-25 20:40:37 · answer #2 · answered by singitoutloudandclear 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are free to make our own decisions and choices and are born with talents and potential. We can choose to use these to make something positive of ourselves but our future isn't set in stone.
If you analyze what "fortune tellers" say it's generally vague and applicable to different situations. People also tend to remember the things that ring true about a horoscope or fortune-teller but forget the things that were way off.
2006-07-25 20:31:19 · answer #3 · answered by Daphne 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time is an illusion. Everything is NOW.
Tangible is temporary.
The idea is to have faith that whatever you need is already there... God knows everything "before" it happens, because it is all happening at once / not at all. (tangible is an illusion)
"WANT" is a statement that whatever it is, does not exist.
Words are creative......
Your decisions, thoughts, actions DO affect you..... LIFE is a collaboration.
Ever noticed you cannot SEE your own face?
Your reflection is not your actual face....
God is HOW you are able to recognize yourself.
Those old photos, where you forget everyone in them except yourself... God is HOW you are able to recognize yourself in them, even when your body looks different from that now and you've never actually seen your face for yourself to begin with.
God is HOW you are able to BE you..... you get to decide what you think that is.
Your body is WHAT you are IN, not WHO you ARE.
God is LOVE, TRUTH, JOY....... religion is humanity trying to explain God.
2006-07-27 10:19:32 · answer #4 · answered by wildflower 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God gave us free will which gives the ability to choose what we do. He also gave us conscience which allows us to do the right thing morally. He knows what you did, what you are doing, and what you are going to do. no matter what you do God still loves you. God bless and peace out.
2006-07-25 20:28:18 · answer #5 · answered by answer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have everything that you say you want. God has not predestined you in any way. Make your choice for life or death. He gives you the information you need to decide for yourself. Choose wisely.
2006-07-25 20:35:25 · answer #6 · answered by Sparkle1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You still have your free will and God is not going to stop you every time you are into spooky things. You are also accountable and responsible for what you do and its after effects.
2006-07-25 20:27:49 · answer #7 · answered by lalskii 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps you are referring to some other god when you say that God gave us free will. But please understand that the God of the Bible, the God of Moses, the God of Jeremiah, the God of Jonah, the God who turned Saul of Tarsus into the Apostle Paul, never said that man's will is free.
Yes, each and every individual is endowed with a will. That is indesputable. Our "will" is what we refer to as our desires, expectations, preferences, our hopes and our dreams. All those things make up our "will."
But does the Bible really teach us that our will is "free?" I know that TV and movies and pop culture want us to believe that our "will" is free, but what about the Bible?
There are a lot of speakers and preachers who say that yes, the human will is "free." They usually say that their bible teaches us that the human will is free. And they do this as they cite verses upon verses in the Bible, that instruct people to make choices (such as in the Book of Joshua).
But we must put all of this into context. Biblical imperatives for people to make choices do not imply that the people have the ability to make choices freely. If anything, the Bible teaches that human decisions based on man's "will" will always eventually result in disaster, heartache and grief. Only the decisions that are based on God's "will" will reflect the Glory, Power and Majesty of the LORD Almighty.
Romans chapter 6 for example, clearly states that we are all SLAVES to sin unless God's Holy Spirit makes us SLAVES to righteousness: SLAVES to God. Where does it say that man's will is "free"?
Being slaves to sin does not mean that we all spend our days physically murdering, cheating, stealing, fornicating and the like. (Although there are Bible passages that teach that we all do those things in our imaginations, our hearts and minds.) Romans chapter 1 laid the groundwork by establishing that we are all sinners because we value the things that God created (the things of this world) more than we value the God who created it all.
And so based on this, our will (our wants and desires and decisions arising from them) does not function outside the control and influences of carnal earthly matters of temporal value; unless God's Holy Spirit controls and influences us to desire the things of God.
No one exists in a neutral zone where we can freely choose something over another. All our choices are conrtolled and influenced by things we never fully understand, whether we admit it or not.
Am I advocating fatalism, the belief that whatever will happen will happen, no matter what we do? I can honestly understand how some people would surely jump to that conclusion. But i am not advocating fatalism.
Fatalism teaches that we are all at the mercy of fate or events. The Bible does not teach fatalism. We are not at the mercy of impersonal fate or anonymous events!
We are however at the mercy of a very personal and actively involved Sovereign God who has mercy on whom he has mercy, and who HE wills he hardens. It is He who determines what is right and wrong and what is evil and what is. And He does not do this capriciously or willy-nilly as we humans do. (Unless the god we believe in merely exists in the capricious willy-nilly minds of mortals.)
Woe to anyone who tries to lecture the true living God on this matter! By personal experience, I know. I've tried to advise God on this matter countless of times, believe me. And so, here I am today. Sharing what I've learned the hard way.
You want your future in God's hands? Don't worry my friend. Whether you like it or not, whether you agree with this or not, whether it makes sense to you or not: your past, present and future has always been in God's hands. The God of the Bible does not need our permission to work in our lives. As our maker, it is His right.
The Bible clearly teaches that For by him ALL things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible; whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities: ALL things were created by him and for him. He is the potter, we are the clay. It is He who works in you to both will and do of His good pleasure.
Do you think you're an exception? Or maybe you're thinking that I'm not being "real" by basing my answers on the Bible?
Remember my friend, it was YOU who first mentioned GOD. And if anyone wants to get "real" about GOD, then we must get "real" with His Word, The Bible. I pray that God's Holy Spirit enables you to fully place your trust in the Almighty Sovereign God of the Bible. Because without the enablement of His Holy Spirit, all of this will be utter foolishness to us all (1Corinthians 1:18 to 2:16).
Grace and peace to you.
2006-07-28 16:53:28 · answer #8 · answered by ngik 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I pondered this question myself. If it is known someting is going to happen before it happens, but you have the choice to change it, but it is GOING to happen, you really didn't have the choice. Alternatively if it was already known to happen and it didn't because you chose another way, then it wasn't known that it was going to happen.
2006-07-25 20:26:13 · answer #9 · answered by ThatOneGuy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your thinking in this flesh dimension w/God there is no time just eternity.Everything you need to know is written upon your heart allready this is your free-will choices that you feel doing good or bad.
2006-07-25 22:18:30 · answer #10 · answered by jas3tm 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋