ace wrote:We choose what we want to decide about our inception (obviously) but since God is outside of time in a sense, he knows what we decide to choose. Just because he knows what we decide to choose doesn't mean he decides for us.
It never occurred to me that God would choose anything for us. I just looked at it as destiny where the outcome of our lives is chosen before we are even born. If that is the case then we really don't have a choice at all.
If free will exists then destiny would be ruined all the time. Free will destroys the concept of destiny because people and their seemingly random will would constantly ruin the outcome or "grand plan" whatever it may be.
So if Destiny is hogwash then how could we have prophecy?
If Destiny were a book then prophecy would be the ability to skip forward a chapter or two then go back to where you left off.
You can't have free will and destiny together at once. We can only believe we have free will or realize that there can be no destiny and thus no prophecy.
And they will remember...
~George Hotz @ $ony