the bible tells us again and again that God LOVES us more that anything and that he provide for us even before we know
my question is...lets say ur God for example....and u were playing SIMS.... and u create some random people...how can u LOVE them?
2007-09-30 17:19:03 · 9 answers · asked by Regular Guy 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No! We are Fallen robots, created good, but with a virus called Sin that has us programmed for our own destruction, and the virus has propagated to all mankind. No one deserves Heaven, no one can reach to heaven on their own. Therefore God must do the saving. He has seen His own, He has predestined His own, from before the foundations of the world. In your "you are God" analogy, the SIMS shake their fists at you from start, only your "grace" keeps them alive at all. You could easily have left them all in their sins and shut down the program. They deserved it anyway. But no, you determined before you started the program that you would save some, not all, to enter into a relationship with the ones you loved. You turned them around and gave them life and freedom. They're not the robots. The robots were the slaves to sin and the ways of the world. The ones that belong to you are different and they get to love you back. You are thus glorified in your salvation of the Elect, and you are glorified in your reprobation of those who do not love you and will never seek your face.
2007-09-30 19:16:10 · answer #1 · answered by ccrider 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if I was God and playing SIMS I would know it is merely a game and not the real thing.
As God, the people I created would be real and in a very real sense my children. Since God is by definition, perfect, the love would automatically be there.
I don't understand how Calvinism has anything to do with your question if it assumes that humans are 'robots.'
2007-09-30 17:28:16 · answer #2 · answered by rush.limburger 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow, how interesting. I have always had tremendous issues w/ predestination. John Calvin, in my opinion, set up a system of beliefs based on the notion that God knows absolutely everything about us. I think the whole thing is extremely complicated, and I really don't think we are supposed to understand it all. How could someone believe in the Bible, which is the Word of God, and still commit themselves to the belief of predestination? The entire Bible is the basis for which we are to live. If we totally submitted ourselves to predestination, we wouldn't have to worry about our actions b/c they've already been planned out to happen no matter what! Come on, Biblically, what is the basis of this belief? Free will is the absolute purpose of our lives! Without our free will, we are no more than little puppets! I do believe He knows everything about our lives, and what we are going to do next, but that is where the confusion and complication comes in! I think we just have to put it all aside, and remember that God is the Almighty, and we have to live according to His Holy Will!
2007-09-30 18:44:21 · answer #3 · answered by Laura H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
awesome insight. i have never heard that. i like that idea. you put things in a new perspective.
We know Calvin had a wild unrestrained, priviledged youth. That makes him more interesting.
But what drove/possessed/forced/persuaded him to write, immediately afterward, while still young (maybe about 35-45 years), 200 pages of commentary each, on each of the books of his current biblical canon, and how did his commentary come to be so relied upon as authority? I leave it to you.
No, you cannot love something you built or designed in the same way you can love your brother, progeny, ancestor, or neighbor.
2007-09-30 17:50:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't think of metal can change into wide unsleeping in spite of the actual incontrovertible truth that it might want to be programmed to act as if it had wide unsleeping yet that probable received't take position via out the subsequent century. and man made intelligence might want to advance interior the subsequent 50 years yet i doubt their will be over one hundred, imagine about the expenses, like the quantity of metal used to create the gadget the type of metal used, the accuracy of the equipment used and each of the years of study gone into it. and to the guy who reported god created the first creatures which then developed to human beings, forgot about Adam and Eve, god created them both because the first human beings, you won't be able to believe in both the evolutionary idea and faith.
2016-10-20 04:13:15 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How does answerer #1 know they don't know we exist?
Do you give your SIMS anytime to write? Do you read the books and magazines published in the SIMS world? Did you even put a library in your SIMS world? How many hours a week to they spend praying and in church services?
2007-09-30 17:29:54 · answer #6 · answered by Mike1942f 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Calvinism doesn't say that does it? That was off the top of your head. Naughty.
2007-09-30 17:35:21 · answer #7 · answered by cheir 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well if that's the case, I must have short circuited.
-Atheist.
2007-09-30 17:42:26 · answer #8 · answered by Burns Baby Burns 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
domo arigato mr. roboto
2007-09-30 17:48:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋