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.
In fact, I would have been there from the moment (there’s that word again) when God made my Soul.

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.
Yet, I know I have free will. I can feel it inside of me, intuitively.
How can it be possible that there is free will and also that fate would invariably land me in Heaven before I was even born?
I assume, by logic, that God is much bigger and more intelligent than anybody could possibly ever imagine. He could make it possible for what seems like predestination and free will to occur. I can only accept by faith, something I know I could never understand. I know it's a blind leap of faith, but I also believe that God made it possible.

If we don’t understand something, does that mean that it could never be possible?
Logic states that it doesn’t.
If we confine our beliefs to that which we can only understand, our view of the universe shrinks to something that the actual reality of the universe is not.

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.
Consequently, they never were in heaven from the moment they were brought into existence.

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?
God is supposed to know ALL. It seems wrong and unfair that this could ever happen. But is it unfair, when it's a person’s free choices that determine the outcome?
Perhaps the answer lies in our understanding of free will and also in our understanding of what eternity is.
We could never fully grasp the concept of eternity. It can only be a concept to us because we have always existed in time. As human beings, we have only known the experience of living in time. We try to envision eternity but only end up describing it to ourselves as being a long, long, long time. That’s not eternity – eternity is without the passage of time.

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.
He wants people to love Him by their own free will.
I believe that God made it possible for us to make free choices, but there would be consequences – there would be lost souls.

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.
Only by faith can a person accept the mysteries God presents us with..

 

 

 

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