Posted on 02/23/2009 10:05:02 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
Chance is random. It cannot be under 'control'. This is an elementary concept. Please tell me you do not truly believe what you wrote?
I think you have hit upon a key point. They don't believe that they are mere mortals having been blessed with a unique relationship with God that is beyond what we can understand.
On what basis does the author submit that none of the data from uranium decay or astrophyscial observations constitutite empirical evidence for deep time?
But God gave us free will. He took a chance on mankind. He was frequently frustrated with our free will and his lack of control so had to resort to drastic measures like kicking man out of the garden of Eden and wiping them off the face of the earth a few times, destroying cities and civilizations and such. Our earth is full of chance. Like when a tornado or fire kills a bunch of innocent children.
God put Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden taking the chance that they would not eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge. The rest is history.
Are you asserting that God does not foresee the outcome of chance events and hence control them by allowing them to happen?
Are you of the school that believes God creates and guides hurricanes to specific places as punishment?
Seems resonable. God has a history of punishing man by 'natural events'.
Pretty presumptious of you to declare what God did or did not do.
Indeed He did, full well knowing the outcome. From our perspective, it is chance. God knew the result.
He took a chance on mankind. He was frequently frustrated with our free will and his lack of control so had to resort to drastic measures like kicking man out of the garden of Eden and wiping them off the face of the earth a few times, destroying cities and civilizations and such.
Still, He knew this would happen. After Adam sinned, He set the plan of redemption in motion.
Our earth is full of chance. Like when a tornado or fire kills a bunch of innocent children.
Do not think of this as chance from God's perspective. If you build your house in the shadow of a volcano, do not complain when lava overtakes it. Do not hold God accountable for our use (or misuse) of free will.
I only repeat what God has declared. I can do nothing else.
Not entirely, unless prophetic warning and a chance for repentance has been given. Ninevah escaped destruction because of Jonah, as a tool of God's love, preaching repentance. Sodom and Gomorrah were given the opportunity to repent and did not.
Which leads to one of the great mysteries of Intelligent Meteorology -- What does God have against mobile homes?
Why didn't God just make man good and without any programming errors he had to eliminate every few generations by destroying most of living man on earth?
If they are not entirely an act of punishment, then either the tornados are sent as a reward or they are an act of chance. Which?
Main Entry: 1chance
1 a: something that happens unpredictably without discernible human intention or observable cause b: the assumed impersonal purposeless determiner of unaccountable happenings : luck c: the fortuitous or incalculable element in existence : contingency
2: a situation favoring some purpose : opportunity (needed a chance to relax)
3: a fielding opportunity in baseball
4 a: the possibility of a particular outcome in an uncertain situation ; also : the degree of likelihood of such an outcome (a small chance of success) b plural : the more likely indications (chances are he's already gone)
5 a: risk (not taking any chances) b: a raffle ticket
Notice how there is nothing indicating direction or planning?
“Despite the widespread belief that “we emerged from chimpanzees 6 million years ago,”
You know that the author is bonkers when he leads off with statements like this!
Aren't trailer park dwellers mostly YEC'rs?
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