I had the pleasure of being invited to an Atheist and Agnostic forum right after the show aired. I'm sure I wasn't their first choice but hey I figured, why not. After all, it was only to last a short time. There is one part that I was asked that I answered that most liked because they could understand it and it made sense to them, or as the New Age group would say, resonated, lol. A very few questions, and some said none, I either didn't know the answer or I was wrong. Still they said they never stumped me and I'm not that great on scripture. I had so much fun for a few days. No debate, just questions and answers. So the question asked was:
How can we have Free Will and God knows all the answers. Isn't that a predetermined destiny?
I remember that he got moderated for combining two questions into one. But I could see where he was coming from and it warranted a double question. The two are really connected. So here goes, without the quotes and I'm sure more added. One of these days me or Megan (hopefully) will draw what I'm talking about, I can't draw, but for now try and visualize it in your mind.
Picture yourself in a car, truck, motorcycle, or walking. Some will have 1,000 per day while others will have millions, and job title has nothing to do with how many. There are no placement as to who gets there the first or last, only that you finish correctly, but there is a time limit. You have plenty of time allotted, but not as much as one wishes to have. There is only 1 way there... Heaven, but many roads that go everywhere else but there. There is a map and one can ask for help as much as they ask. Each crossroads you have to make a choice, but no way is marked somethings and other times it is. Sitting still won't work, somebody will run you over either pushing you their way or out of the way. We all use these crossroads though some more than others and at different times and some go through a crossroad so fast you can't even see them pass. One of three possible paths, but there is no room to turn around.
One chooses the path they take and sometimes it may be a few hours, but it could be only a second later before the next one appears. It's like and endless maze yet if we stand back and look at it for a minute we'd see that it isn't a maze, just a series of small connections. Very few have a dead end, most just keep on going to the next crossroads. One can end right back to the place but at a different time and one can end out way out of the way and become lost. We can become so lost that directions are hard to hear or see, but it isn't impossible, nothing is impossible when we set our minds to it. But all of this strays from my original thing of the crossroads.
From each crossroads there is really only three possible outcomes. While the mathematical possibilities for the whole race is endless, the possibility for each crossroads is only three. The mathematical possibility for the end of the race is two, good or bad. You've either finished your race well or not. You compete with nobody, so second place isn't an option. You and I either have made it to the destination or we miss. But the beauty of it all is no one crossroads, save a few, determine the way we finish. It's always possible to get back.
So, we have choices and God only has to know the possible outcomes of each direction you take plus a fourth, for those who attempt to stand still. From a distance He can see what will happen to those that do stand still and get moved along by others coming to that crossroads where one stalls out. We often can as we gain height and distance from a crossroad, see the choices made wrong or followed wrong after we pass it. Most of us know what decisions made us decide this or that. Sometimes we can see that decision that others make that makes a difference that are good or bad in their life because we have been there before. Some call it the determining fact, I call it the crossroads in one's life, one of many. We never know when this journey will end but the good part about it is that we can end it well. We can never be so lost that we cannot find out way back... never.
So there you have it, my weird version of life's journey.
Peace, Anthony Kimbrough
How can we have Free Will and God knows all the answers. Isn't that a predetermined destiny?
I remember that he got moderated for combining two questions into one. But I could see where he was coming from and it warranted a double question. The two are really connected. So here goes, without the quotes and I'm sure more added. One of these days me or Megan (hopefully) will draw what I'm talking about, I can't draw, but for now try and visualize it in your mind.
Picture yourself in a car, truck, motorcycle, or walking. Some will have 1,000 per day while others will have millions, and job title has nothing to do with how many. There are no placement as to who gets there the first or last, only that you finish correctly, but there is a time limit. You have plenty of time allotted, but not as much as one wishes to have. There is only 1 way there... Heaven, but many roads that go everywhere else but there. There is a map and one can ask for help as much as they ask. Each crossroads you have to make a choice, but no way is marked somethings and other times it is. Sitting still won't work, somebody will run you over either pushing you their way or out of the way. We all use these crossroads though some more than others and at different times and some go through a crossroad so fast you can't even see them pass. One of three possible paths, but there is no room to turn around.
One chooses the path they take and sometimes it may be a few hours, but it could be only a second later before the next one appears. It's like and endless maze yet if we stand back and look at it for a minute we'd see that it isn't a maze, just a series of small connections. Very few have a dead end, most just keep on going to the next crossroads. One can end right back to the place but at a different time and one can end out way out of the way and become lost. We can become so lost that directions are hard to hear or see, but it isn't impossible, nothing is impossible when we set our minds to it. But all of this strays from my original thing of the crossroads.
From each crossroads there is really only three possible outcomes. While the mathematical possibilities for the whole race is endless, the possibility for each crossroads is only three. The mathematical possibility for the end of the race is two, good or bad. You've either finished your race well or not. You compete with nobody, so second place isn't an option. You and I either have made it to the destination or we miss. But the beauty of it all is no one crossroads, save a few, determine the way we finish. It's always possible to get back.
So, we have choices and God only has to know the possible outcomes of each direction you take plus a fourth, for those who attempt to stand still. From a distance He can see what will happen to those that do stand still and get moved along by others coming to that crossroads where one stalls out. We often can as we gain height and distance from a crossroad, see the choices made wrong or followed wrong after we pass it. Most of us know what decisions made us decide this or that. Sometimes we can see that decision that others make that makes a difference that are good or bad in their life because we have been there before. Some call it the determining fact, I call it the crossroads in one's life, one of many. We never know when this journey will end but the good part about it is that we can end it well. We can never be so lost that we cannot find out way back... never.
So there you have it, my weird version of life's journey.
Peace, Anthony Kimbrough
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