So what is prophesied over your life such that you know the day of your death and other details. Lets see if your theory is true in your life.
If the prophecy came from the Most High God, it is
true. I don't pay attention to oracles or entities that express psionic affinity unless they have been sent by the Most High God - a spiritual judgment I trust He will endow upon me, as well as educate me in.
The fact that prophecy
comes true as the prophet describes should show up that there is something about the Hellenistic idea of FATE - namely, that FATE may control us, but the Most High God controls FATE. Everything that will happen has already happened; humans are handicapped by our linear thinking, reason and logic.
Where did Jesus teach this when he taught us to pray?
The Redeemer taught us how to pray
for the will of the Father - not for our own will, or for things to "go right in our lives". That is not the objective of this life; to understand the Law of the Most High God and to love Him through it all is the point of this life. The rules and regulations have already been founded; we just need to
represent Him correctly, and honestly.
Yes you can. Some have done so openly. Read the OT.
You are confusing a human aligning their will with the will of the Most High God. When we actually understand
this is also part of the point of our existence, all of our prayers will come true.
The only entities that have 100% free will are Holy Entities - and they give 100% of their free will to the Most High God, trusting His Judgment only.
Jesus only came once. He hadn’t come before. So that’s not true.
The
Son of Man came to this plane of existence once, and died. Then, He came back to show His resurrected body.
The Word of God (who Yehoshuah actually is) has always existed, and anytime someone heard "God" talking to them, they are hearing the literal Word of God. When the patriarchs
saw God, they saw His Image - the Definition of the Redeemer/Yehoshuah/Son of God.
Everything that will happen has already happened. Time is not linear.
We don’t control it but we definitely affect it.
You don't do either. Your destiny has already
been; what you are seeing is the slow reel of your life to let you know why you deserve the
afterlife you already have. That is why you should always pray for the will of the Father, and for your soul to be saved.
Eastern religion does this, true. Christianity does not. We have free will and that’s influences our destiny.
Christianity comes from the Hebrews - an Eastern spiritual path.
No, we are separated and biology works against physical laws.
Biology does not work against physical laws; biochemistry is dictated by electric potential - which is related to FORCE (which is the foundation of
physics). Still, human physics is absolutely abysmal when considering Creation, and its order. That is why we always run to and fro with knowledge, and never really get anywhere. We are handicapped by our logic and reason.
Jesus told us to take up our cross. He didn’t say we have no control over this.
And yet, some people believe they can pray away their trials and tribulations established
for them - to refine them and make them perfect/upright before the Most High God. The thought that one can change the mind of the Most High God (and, therefore the trajectory of one's life) is a reason why some people end up leaving Him and becoming ex-Christian. Our want for control is a carnal handicap.
God and man hold us responsible for our choices.
Only the Most High God holds Creation responsible for its choices; man is irrelevant in judging man under the Most High God. Nevertheless, we don't get to choose our destiny or life; we get the freedom to respond to those stimuli in our lives as spiritual entities in a physical body.
Where is that view in the Bible?
Everywhere. The Word of God tells us how to pray:
Our Father (Holy is His name), who is in heaven: His Kingdom come and will be done ON EARTH as it is in heaven.
Give us, this day, our daily bread, and forgive us for our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.
Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from all evil.
Yours is the Kingdom, Power and Glory forever.
You say this so you remind yourself prayer is a
conversation between you and your Father, not an attempt to try to change His will to align to yours. We should be aligning our will to His, and we should be asking for everything according to His will. This psychological, spiritual and physical act of "letting go," and letting Him take control goes beyond the cliche application: you make an agreement to forego your own wants in order to align yourself to the Most High God.
This is why "free will" is a misnomer at best; we never had "free" anything because we are fallen entities. We will always have boundaries on us since we are fallen. We have the luxury to respond to the things that happen to us, and we get to see
why we deserve to be where we already are in spirit through our actions and decisions on this plane of existence.
As another poster alluded to: will you be the ant that
tries to find the right path despite the distractions of more attractive pheromone-scented paths? Or, will you - despite all of your God given intellect - choose to go down the wrong path out of spite, or ignorance? We have set up this duality trap for ourselves; when we become Holy, we will have free will (but, we will have the wisdom to abdicate it all to the Most High God).
Trying to bend the laws of nature to your will is called
sorcery.
You haven’t begun to explore my personal or spiritual limits. Not even close.
I said people have personal spiritual
and physical limits (psychological, intellectual) - which I understand. I made no attempt to explore your personal spiritual or physical limits, but you said
Ah, a Calvinist...that explains all. The rest I deleted it without reading as much as I could. The theology is too cruel for the eyes.
Despite my faith-designation, you
told me I was a Calvanist, and then you said that you deleted what I wrote
without reading it since the "theology" was too cruel for your eyes. These sound like personal limitations - the assumptions, the inability to entertain something without necessarily believing it, and the wilful ignorance/"deletion". If you weren't describing your personal physical limitations concerning my post (intellect, ignorance, psychology, willingness to continue, cruelty to your eyes, etc.), then what was your point? Surely, you weren't being dismissive.
