You know if you start questioning the churches meanings it's going to lead you on the path out. All it takes is questioning one of these cracks and the rest of the cookie starts to crumble.Since I go to a catholic school, I always hear god has a plan for us. Yesterday we were learning about freewill, but if god already knows our future & chose it, we don’t have freewill. God decides if you go to heaven or hell before you’re even born. Wdym
Yee I’m not actually catholic, I just attend a Catholic school. I always found a lot of errors in it. It doesn’t need make sense Adam & eve are the 1st humans because there is no way they could be. The Bible has ignored the evolution of humans & wouldn’t Adam & eve’s kids have to have kids with eve if there weren’t any other people ?You know if you start questioning the churches meanings it's going to lead you on the path out. All it takes is questioning one of these cracks and the rest of the cookie starts to crumble.
It's same as God is a loving God, yet God is vengeful as heck.
Religion is an oxymoron.
There is a plan but freewill can jack it up. That is the point. People have to make good choices and are accountable for those made both by commission and omission.Since I go to a catholic school, I always hear god has a plan for us. Yesterday we were learning about freewill, but if god already knows our future & chose it, we don’t have freewill. God decides if you go to heaven or hell before you’re even born. Wdym
Yeah, as I'm Muslim, the first sentence is actually what I'm trying to say.I've actually thought about this question a lot. It all depends on your belief.
I've heard that God knows our future in the current path that we are taking but he gives us the freewill to change the path that we are on. I've also heard that God already has everything decided for us and our conception of freewill is not actually true.
There are so many beliefs and thoughts within the same religion. If you go to a Protestant Church, you will hear completely different teachings based on the same belief, that's how different it can be. They're are many more contrasts in beliefs in religions which are all dismissed. But we have to remember, religion itself was created by humans and humans are flawed which is pretty much my theory as to why there are so many opposing beliefs in the same religion.
Just to clarify, I'm not Christian myself but I've studied Islam at school where predestination and freewill is a major topic so I know quite a bit about it.
I just study it ^^ I study Christianity too but we've learned more about Islam so far so I know more about it.Yeah, as I'm Muslim, the first sentence is actually what I'm trying to say.
Are you Muslim or did you just study Islam?
^this. Plus the concept of free will (within Abrahamic systems) probably explains why bad things happen to, but... thats not the point.God knows our future. However, we chose it. He does have the power to control our future, and in many ways, He does. However, He doesn't for certain things because at the end of the day, we have to be responsible for our actions. He will do things to help us along the way (or not), but at the end of the day, it's us who makes the decision. It's Him who makes the decision go a certain way.