predestination

I think most Christians believe in free will and will argue against predestination, and yet I must have heard or read at least ten times today some statement such as "everything happens for a reason", "it's God's will", "it's according to God's plan" or some other variation of the same nonsense...

When Protestant ministers choose to use a New Testament text as the basis for a sermon they are often likely to pick one of the Pauline epistles, rather than the words of Jesus. In one instance this is particularly problematic, since the doctrines enshrined in that document are inimical to our...

Tomorrow you wake up and there is an envelope on your mantlepiece, on the envelope is: Supposing this is really from God who knows the future and you will try to test this by doing different things than the letter predicts - will you find yourself following the schedule in the letter like a...

Predestination is a falsehood. I looked at AtheistArchon's argument and I find it laughable. Let me reiterate: Lets take a look at this question: To see if man was obidient. Remember, God likes testing people. There are several stories in the old testament that are similar to this (i.e. Isaac...