Re: OT: Shades of gray?

In other words, we're automatons, preprogrammed for every sneeze. It makes me wish I'd never been born - what's the point?

Su wrote:
"Ed Chait" <edchait4remove@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:_INWf.1041$i41.1030@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Do you see what I'm saying?

Yes.

Do you still not believe in predestiny?

I believe in it because the Bible states that it exists. What I do not agree with is that a person can know their own destiny or the destiny of anyone else. Only God knows that.


Thank you!!! I've been saying this for I don't know how long.
God to Michael the Archangel: "Mr & Mrs Chait are going to have a baby in three years. They'll name him Ed. He'll be this kind of student, that kind of son, etc. He'll also be an atheist, and one day he'll be a Christian. He'll die and then we'll chat on Cloud #280. --- And that's all known before your conception. Maybe even 500,000 years before that.

NONE of that is going to change; not by you and not by anyone. That was your destiny.

As I think you can tell, I don't believe in "free choice" like it's written in the bible. Oh yeah, you have the "choice" to write with a blue or black pen, and you have a "choice" to send your wife flowers on your anniversary ... but it was known WAY BACK what your choices were going to be ... long before you were thought in your parent's head.

I don't buy into the whole "Adam & Eve were tempted" story. It was known LONG BEFORE they came to be what was going to happen.

I hope I've explained things okay.


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