http://jaredph.blogspot.com/2008/02/dismal-times.html
Its a funny thing. This post was a mere two weeks before I fell into atheism and experienced the worst time period of my life. How was it that I almost knew it was going to happen, even by just looking at the weather? Does God work in strange prophetic ways?
Yet how was it that I almost had foreknowledge of a storm yet I was powerless to avoid it? Powerless to get out of it? Powerless to fight back the inevitable darkness clothing me? If we did know things that would happen to us in the future, would we be able to stop them, or will Time just run its course anyways?
Its like a story that you've read a billion times. You wish that the sad parts could be changed, but it cant. In that respect, seeing your own future is just like reading your own storybook. Your the character and you follow the plot, but the plot will never change. It was, is, and always will be following the same path until those actions become cemented in the past, never to change again.
Does free will even exist? Or is it just an illusion created by our desire to change the inevitable? What control do we really have over what happens to us?
And will the storybook end up as a comedy or a tragedy?
~Jared
2 comments:
I find it kind of funny that almost everything you say speaks to me--this was no exception. I like how you put that, how we can't change the book because it's already written. Is it really an illusion? We'll never know.
God's will is always going to be done, but I don't believe that he has meticulously planned out every detail of our lives leading up to this.
I believe that God allows us to make choices, and that we reap the benefits and/or consequences of those choices.
So, I guess I would say that there isn't even a story to change; it's being written as we go along. God just knows how it's going to end, despite that various roads that are taken to get there.
As long as we're following God it's inevitable that it will end happily, as we go to be with Him in eternity forever.
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