My beef with predestination is such:
The tenants of Christianity teach
God is omniscent
And, God is omnipotent
And, God is good
And, God cares about you
And, there a heaven and hell.
But, you are born to commit good or evil acts that will send you to heaven or hell, and God knows this.
God has the power to affect your life in such a way, that he can bring you into his fold, or send you screaming into the pit.
But, God does not exercise this power to help you.
To me, this implies that one or more of the Christian assumption are false.
A good and caring God would not allow you to commit acts that would damn you or harm others.
Instead of blindly believing "God works in mysterious ways", I've reconciled this quandry by not taking the last 3 assumptions, (good, caring and heaven).
How does anybody else reconcile this logical problem? |
