why predestination?

Answer 1

A false teaching.

Answer 2

Why Probability?

Why Earth?

Why Human?

Why Existence?

Predestination = Comes from 'pre-' meaning 'before' and 'destination' meaning that place or intent which you want to end up in.

The word is usually related to others like 'Fate' or 'Destiny'.

Can Fate, Destiny or Predestination be changed?

Okay, let me ask you something.

If you let go of a ball, will it fall to the ground? Assuming you're on Earth and gravity is still working. Can you will or choose it to not touch the ground when you let it go?

If you add 2 to 1, do you get 3? Can you will or choose for the answer to not be 3 but be say 4?

So is the fact that the ball touches the ground and that 2 + 1 = 3 predestined? Fated? Unavoidable?

Of course!

Fate, Destiny, Predestination are simply misconceptions or misconceived labels about the law of cause and effect operating on the universe!

Why does 1 + 1 equal 2? Why are we able to see in Light and not in Darkness? Why does the mug move forward when I push it with my finger? Why do people usually die when they jump off a very tall building?

It's all about probability. Some things are more probable than others, like 1 + 1 turning out to be 2, which is something absolutely probable until it becomes a truth, a norm, an axiom. Others, such as the light coming on when you press the switch are less probable due to any number of factors, such as the bulb not working, the electricity's cut off, etc.

There is no such thing as a Puppet Master controlling your every action and thus your fate. You are the Master. But you still have to work with some logical, physical, universal laws that cannot be bent or broken.

Answer 3

Predestination is not a Bible teaching.It is a man made doctrine
Mat.24:!3-"He that endures to the end will be saved"

Answer 4

Imagine standing on the roof a ten-story building. A parade is going to start in the street below. It forms, it begins, and it travels the parade rout length and then disperses. All this happened in your view.
This is the way OUR GOD sees us! Before our birth HE knows the complete and whole story! But HE also orchestrated our "parade rout" before we were even born. That is called PREDESTINATION. Before we were even born HE knew everything.
Romans 8: 30. Ephesians 1: 5. Ephesians 1: 11.

Answer 5

Like fate or determinism, you mean? Why not? Predetermination stems from the scientific and logical presumption of a reason for everything. If there is a reason for everything that happens, then the outcome is already decided before the situation occurs. Of course, if you believe in free will, you've got a problem. However, in empirical studies, there is no proof either way, so your beliefs 'determine' whether you go for predeterminism or free will.

Answer 6

Doesnt make sense, does it? First they tell you free will, then they tell you that God has a plan. Which is it??? Cant have both!!

Psalm 139 reads that God has everyone of your days planned, "written in his book" from birth to death. If this is so, how can free will exist? If God has my life planned right down to the minute I die, what the point in prayer?? If God has it that I am to die on August 31, 2017 at 8:39 pm, then WHY PRAY?!?!?! Im gonna go, arent I? Isnt prayer then a waste of time??

Answer 7

God has predetermined (predestined) what standard people will have to meet in order to be with Him in Heaven.
And He has predetermined that those who qualify to go to Heaven will be changed into the perfectly sinless image (faultless) of Jesus.

Answer 8

"Free will' is a logical impossibility, concomitant with an 'omniscient' diety. So...

IF god exists AND god is omniscient THEN (of necessity) we DO NOT have free will AND (of necessity) every aspect of our existence is prefetermined.

ELSE

IF god exists AND we DO HAVE free will THEN, god (of necessity) IS NOT omniscient

ELSE

IF god DOES NOT exist, THEN there is a POSSIBILITY (not a certainty) that we have free will.

Just another reason (among many) to conclude that the Abrahamic god of desert monotheism is a bogus human construct. It is interesting to note that when man invented the 'properties' of their diety (omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence), the invention of formalized 'logic' was still a few thousand years in the future. Thus, they lacked the intellectual tools to realize that they had effectively 'screwed the pooch' with respect to the potential interactions of such a diety and his 'creation'. Then. there's this brief list of other things that defy 'belief':

*  a universe in which all that exists are the earth and heaven
*  solid 'firmament' structure (the sky) separating the earth from heaven (terrarium earth)
*  talking snakes (with legs) and donkeys
*  shepherd staff turning into an asp
*  demons chased out of people and into pigs
*  friendly spirits
*  evil spirits
*  walking on water
*  multiplying loaves and fishes
*  food falling from the sky
*  conception by a ghost
*  people raising from the dead
*  the sun stopping in its tracks
*  parting seas
*  people being bodily sucked up into heaven (which, by the way, lies on the 'other side' of the sky)
*  world-wide flood that drowned the earth to a depth of 40 feet above the tallest mountain
*  creating people from dust bunnies and ribs
*  magical tree of knowledge
*  god speaking from a burning bush
*  ritual cannibalism, by eating god in the form of a cracker

Answer 9

I don't think anyone understands that.