Apologetics on Predestination and Free-will. In heaven there is no time. Time exists only on this plane of existence. Heaven is eternal. The view from heaven, of this universe, would show the universe’s beginning and its end all at at once. ("at once" being a moment in time from my understanding – not a moment in eternity – there would be no such thing) When I became a Christian, I sealed my destiny
in that I would go to Heaven after I died. If Heaven is eternal and
stands outside of time, then the future me"(or my soul) would already
there and could very well be looking down upon myself right now. If I was already in Heaven, then my logic tells
me that I was predetermined to end up there, and that would suggest
predetermination. That, in turn, would seem to negate the fact that
we have free will, as the bible states. If we don’t understand something, does that mean
that it could never be possible? God gave us free will and
because He is beyond the experience of time, he could see our lives
from start to finish all at the same time and just knows the way our
free choices will turn out. He would know that all the free choices
some people make, would never work out with them becoming Christians. Could God see the results of a person’s choices
from before they were brought into existence and if so, why would he
make them exist if they were only going to end up in hell? I believe the main gist of the storylines in
the bible is about the results of free will and how the free decisions
of men affected their relationship with God. The bible is filled with mysteries that are difficult,
if not impossible for us to integrate into our system of logic. I believe
science and spirituality could one day meet on common ground if the
science of mankind was advanced enough or if mankind's limited intellect
was capable of it.
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