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Originally Posted by Phat Chocobo
And if Revelations are about the future, what's happened to free will if the future's been predetermined for the last two thousand years?
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I'll comment on this. I don't see the connection between the two. You say the future has been predetermined so therefore we have no free will. It's not a sound theory, I have a choice here, I could shit my pants or go to the toilet right? I mean, most likely you know i'll go, but I COULD shit my pants if I wanted to.
I think you need to view it another way, I'm not saying your wrong, but please hear my concept. I think with God being an "omnipotent" being that it isn't that we don't have free will, WE DO, but God is beyond any intelligence we could fathom and therefore already knows what we'll choose.
I mean come on, you hear of people that can read minds all the time, or all those people talking to spirits, like that one famous chick that comes on the Montel show. Well if people can see the future or the past now, with some kind of clairvoyance or clairaudience, or whatev, that we don't understand.
Why can't God do it? Since he was the lord of all creation, and created the humans that can do it. Nostradamus anyone?
Yes Lord, you were right, I'm going to the toilet now...
Lastly, Anno Domino sounds latin, is it any coincedence though that its BC and AD, I've never heard it called anything other than Before Christ or After Death. But I suppose there not only is a scientific name for them, but also perhaps titles for other countries that are not Christian.