2006-11-06 16:47:17 · 14 answers · asked by Rez 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
This is the way I think of it.
God (or some other divine power, deity, or group of deities, be that gods and goddesses, Allah, The Force, or what have you) has already laid out the choices you will make in life. He/She/They/It have created a road map, of sorts, that extends in millions upon millions of different ways with different twists and different ends.
They give you the map, and you decide which way you want to go.
2006-11-06 16:54:42 · answer #1 · answered by 27ridgeline 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Divine preodrination cannot exist unless you ask for it. This is where free will comes into effect. God wants you for Himself, however He will not force you to your knees. He will not force His Spirit on you without your consent.
You must ask Him for His divine guidance and until you do you are on your own. Once you've made the decision to accept the God of Israel,Abraham and Moses, then your life will be taken to where God wants you to be.
Free will and divine preodrination do not co-exist: one has to be surrendered for the other to exist.
For Gods' will to exist in your life you have to trust Him completely (read faith) and give up your own free will.
2006-11-07 01:44:49 · answer #2 · answered by the old dog 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are very few rules in our relationship with God, but a bedrock principle is that all humans have free will and God will not act to obstruct this. It is the will of God that each of us make our own choice to know and love God. The limitations of time and space apply to earth dwellers not to God. So in human/earth time there is a linear progression of events in a time sequence (or the illusion of this) that is not a limitation that God has. A good example of this is the big bang. In one-trillionth of second the universe went from the size of the head of a pin to a universe made up of billions of stars dispersed over a space of billions of light years. Consequently, the totality of human experience can be known at once to God even though this plays out in billions of years in earth time.
2006-11-07 01:15:01 · answer #3 · answered by b_steeley 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question!
This same question has made separation in Islamic world for centuries. FYI in this religion there is a "Grand Tree of Life" with a name of each person ever live on earth along with their destiny. They too believe that death, fortune, your life partner (spouse) and so on is already determined even before you are born. Seems absolutely predetermined isn't it? Nevertheless there's a verse in it's book of revelation that says "God will not alter one's fate unless he alter it himself." It confuses even the religion's most profound thinkers.
One solution to the paradox is that "God doesn't follow the ordinary concept of time". Like the one our friend b_steeley and clcalifornia has very beautifully described earlier (but I found this by myself many years a go though).
With this postulate in mind there will be no more paradox. This also agree with the concept that "God has no end and no beginning". So yes they are coexist! But not in the way we human perceive it.
2006-11-07 03:43:24 · answer #4 · answered by McGee Broderick 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are assuming that predistination means that God has a definate plan for you. You think that God micromanages and one wrong split second decision on our part puts us outside of His destined will.
Wrong.
The predistination is that God choses us to be his children. We have freedom of choice.
Think of your life as a circle ...with an entry point and an exit point. Because God is not restriced by our earthly time he is above us and he sees our whole circle of life before we actually live it. His intention is that we chose well and live our life with freedom of choices, yet his desire is that we chose to trust Him and give our Hearts to Him.
I we are puppets then there is no freedom and also we can add, why would a loving all pure Creator let there be pain and trials in our lives. We have such tirals becasue of our freedom of choices. Even the earth is in distress.
Because of freedom of choice there are bad things that happen.
2006-11-07 02:04:47 · answer #5 · answered by clcalifornia 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really don't think it is possible for them to co-exist with each other because their foundations are different from the other therefore they contradict each other.
2006-11-07 01:06:24 · answer #6 · answered by Abel Z 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
simple. the finer details.......i can say you will be hit by a truck at 5:27pm after buying ice cream (preordination)....but free will chose the type of ice cream you bought and why you chose that route to take
2006-11-07 01:50:27 · answer #7 · answered by mackctm 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
divine preordination is given to us via experiences, but the path we choose is our free will....
2006-11-07 07:37:02 · answer #8 · answered by avava9 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you can believe in God, it doesn't matter. God has a nature outside nature that cannot be explained; he/she/it breaks all our rules. It doesn't matter that, to us, free will makes no sense.
That's why talking about God as if he/she/it were rational, or could be understood rationally, can be rather pointless.
2006-11-07 01:50:27 · answer #9 · answered by -.- 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they exist on opposite sides of the spectrum in my opinion
2006-11-07 00:55:38 · answer #10 · answered by Full Circle 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋