Posted by just plain jane on January 16, 2005, at 20:38:06
In reply to The Choices We Make, posted by AdaGrace on January 16, 2005, at 16:49:41
AdaGrace, you psychobeauty, ;}
I do believe we make the choices, free will and all. I don't believe it is all "mapped out".
I know many Bible believers who take the phrase about God knowing the number of hairs on our heads and about the time we will die, and various other things, to mean that we don't actually have free will. It's their Bible, they can read it the way they want, but I disagree.
As I believe, God is Almighty, Omniscient, The Way, The Truth, and The Light, and all the other manners in which His entity is referred to, no matter by W/whom. This being so, and us being unable to understand or conceive of even an infinitesimal fraction of what He is, does, knows, can do, will do, I can't begin to believe I have a wisp of a hint of what is after we die. Every imaginable idea is possible, but nobody's gotten past that "bright light" thing people who have died and come back to tell us.
By choosing to lean on your own understanding instead of trusting that God will make your way clear if you let Him, you are tying His hands, so to speak, BUT, you have the choice to do that.
It is ironic to me that choosing to accept whatever He wills for me results in my life turning into what I had dreamed of since I was a child, and could not achieve on my own.
Sometimes I just gotta shake my head (to be sure I still have marbles).
just plain jane
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