SirSmilez

SirSmilez' Pithy Polemic
2003-02-27 04:14:20 (UTC)

new diary

never done this before

What can it hurt though right?

Question of the day: If God is running the show and
completely in charge of everything, then how come we get
in trouble for doing stuff wrong? Isn't that unfair?
It's like yelling at a kid for skinning his knee after you
pushed him down.

Answer: God is in control of everything. And yet we are
responsible for our actions. They seem inconsistent but
they're not. Nature provides examples of these sorts of
inconsistencies.

When we study light scientifically, it behaves like a
wave. But when we examine light scientifically, it also
behaves like a bunch of particles. Both seem
incompatible, and yet both are demonstratably true.

When we look at the universe closely enough it seems very
random and chaotic, so chaotic that we can't even say for
certain where a certain particle is at any specific moment
in time. And yet, when we back up a bit, things become
very predictable. Chemicals mixed in the proper
quantities produce predictable results. Somehow all the
tiny random uncertainties combine to create consistency.
Random chaos and reliable predictabilty seem incompatible,
yet both are demonstratably true.

In the same way God's complete control and our free will
seem incompatible. Yet according to the Bible, and
according to common experience, both are true.

None of us waits in bed in the morning, waiting for God to
pick them up and get out of bed. None of us sits in the
passenger seat of their car and expects God to drive them
to work. And yet most of us pray, expecting, or at the
very least hoping, that God can and will answer regardless
of the impossibility of the request. The very idea of a
God who isn't in charge and able seems internally
inconsistent.

I'm just Joe nobody, but my opinion for those who care, is
that God, in his absolute power, has given us free will.
We have the opportunity and the responsibility to do the
right thing. Yet whether we choose to or not, we cannot
stop God. He will work through us or around us, but he is
perfectly capable of accomplishing what he sets out to do
regardless.

That excites me for two reasons. One: I get to work with
God. How cool is that? He didn't have to, but he chose
to let me work with him. Two: I'm not responsible for
the results. I might do my very best and still mess it
all up. In that event, rather than crawling in a hole and
dying, I can trust God to get the job done. In a world
full of stressed out depressives, that seems like a pretty
good thing.

Good Night!
Rob




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