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A pawn can become a queen. As we read about with Queen Esther.I agree that life is like a game of chess. However, we are not the ones playing. We are the pawns. God is the One playing, and He knows that He will win. When He wins, He will gather up all His chess pieces back to Himself. And God does not lose His chess pieces.
A pawn can become a queen. As we read about with Queen Esther.
The queen has the most power. The King like the Pawns can only move one space at a time.Ha! But even the queen is subject to the king. And it is the King of kings that controls both of their every move.
This is a paradox. We are told nothing is impossible for God. Yet it is impossible for Him to lie. You say it is impossible for Him to fail. (We can fail but He can never fail.) It is impossible for Him to do anything contrary to His nature. He is a God of absolute justice. That is why either man had to die for his sin or God had to die. So Jesus took our place at carvery. Yet people want to claim there is no justice with God. They claim a just God would not send people to hell for their sin. Yet there is Justice in everything that God does. Even though "we have pass form death to life" still people die.A doctor is a man. When we put our hope in man, they can surely fail us. When we put our hope in God, it is impossible for Him to fail us, because it is impossible for Him to fail.
That is the whole point. Either man has to die or God has to die. So Jesus died for us. "Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God."
I remember when I was in Hong Kong and I had to decide if I was going to get married or not. I wanted God to decide for me. I wanted Him to make the decision. He left it up to me, I had to decide for myself. It was my decision, not His.
How is it that Luke took the time to get to know Mary and tells us a lot about her and the early stores she would tell about Jesus. Like the time when He was 12 and he stayed behind at the temple. You would think that because Jesus asked John to take care of Mary that he would get to know her and tell us more, but he does not tell us as much as Luke does.
My wife told me to say, "Yes."Actually, the point is do we have Free Will or not.
I am the boss of my house, whatever my wife says to do we do.My wife told me to say, "Yes."
I have had dreams about the future that did not take place for almost 20 years.Hi,
Actually, the point is do we have Free Will or not.
Your point to me was, God can choose not to know something, and the answer to that for me is yes, as I have encountered that.
Faustina, experienced that with Jesus. She had a free will, and Jesus asked her in writing to give it up, to God, and she complied.
Someone here, has s wife with dreams that always comes true.
Her dreams are brighter than normal. It is those White Dreams that are brighter than normal that come true.
Other dreams of hers do not come true, as they are normal dreams.
He has not told me this, but it is so.
In my mothers case, all her white dreams came true in three days and there was nothing she could do to stop the events from happening.
My daughter gets them. A nurse in the Los Angeles area gets them. For her it is three days also.
Dreams are mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles, by Peter, when The Holy Spirit Descended Upon all of them.
LOVE,
I am the boss of my house, whatever my wife says to do we do.
This is a paradox. We are told nothing is impossible for God. Yet it is impossible for Him to lie. You say it is impossible for Him to fail. (We can fail but He can never fail.) It is impossible for Him to do anything contrary to His nature. He is a God of absolute justice. That is why either man had to die for his sin or God had to die. So Jesus took our place at carvery. Yet people want to claim there is no justice with God. They claim a just God would not send people to hell for their sin. Yet there is Justice in everything that God does. Even though "we have pass form death to life" still people die.
I have had dreams about the future that did not take place for almost 20 years.
I am the boss of my house, whatever my wife says to do we do.
I prefer to think my choices are deterministic, because:
...if my choices were not determined by these things, they wouldn't be my choices.
My wife is a pkg deal. If I want her then I got to take her family and friends along with her.Hi,
That is also humor. Right?????
One of my favorite days, in my married life, was when it was proved to me, "And the two become one flesh"
I had seen all the signs for seven years, after we were married. I said nothing. I just did, and was.
Then one day someone asked me, in a very challenging way, in a very important meeting, if I had indeed become more like my Spouse.
My response was long. I had to tell her that her answer was in my response, so she would hear all of it. And, it was inescapable to me then, I had become like my husband in all ways that are emotional. I loved who He loved. I also loved The Way He loved another person. That was a nice day.
My listener not only accepted that, she looked at my actions then in a way that I will not look at them yet, or ever maybe.
She said to me, then what you want is what He wants. I could not deny that. I refuse to affirm that. It may not be true.
If it is true though, then maybe the female with all males is also doing her husbands secret will, which she knows.
God, did your secret will, by sending His very Own Son. Can anyone here deny that accurately????
Is it not possible, if you both are not just joking, that your wife although as fallible as I am with my husband, is merely doing your secret will to the best of her abilities?
As Eve was fooled, and Adam was not fooled, my husband can countermand anything I have decided to do, when I tell Him, or He finds out about something I am doing, that I did not clear with Him, and made an error, and I like it that way, as I am wrong, some of the time.
I do not like being wrong, I just like it when my husband protects me from my errors, by saying No. Even errors in doing His Will.
I imagine, this issue of love being, 'doing the will of the one you love', is always in a marriage dual, in that each of you is doing the known and secret wills of each other. The only change in a marriage is, since using your FREE WILL, to choose to marry, and therefore the two become one, then pleasing her or him, is also pleasing you, so it is now easier to do, if not somewhat confusing then.
LOVE,
My wife is a pkg deal. If I want her then I got to take her family and friends along with her.
My wife is a pkg deal. If I want her then I got to take her family and friends along with her.
If your choices were determined by these things, then they wouldn't be your choices at all. The things that determined your actions during your life would themselves be determined by events preceding your birth, and your "choices" would have been a foregone conclusion even before your conception.
God is married to Isreal just as we are the Bride of Christ. According to Physics a marriage has to take place between the negative and the positive elements in the Atom in order to create the elements and molecules for life. Then there is a marriage between Creator and Creation. As you say there is only one God. Many people have many wifes in the Bible. But not once is there a women with more then one husband that is approved by God.Hi,
And you do that. You are technically loving what she loves. You are doing her will.
She does your will also.
Both of you by your individual Free Wills did this:
You chose(used your free will) to love(Do the will of) God(It is not good for the man to be alone), in accepting His choice for each if you in a mate: "And the two became one", and each does the will(loves) each other as God tells us we are to love(do the will of) each other, which always involves God, as He is the one we are to love(Do The Will Of) the most and always, then our neighbor as our own selves, and then others as Jesus has loved us, with the stipulation, that God never ever intended for divorce(ending) of that love(doing the will of) in the first place with each other, but for it to be forever, just like God's love for us is forever.
Even though, God allowed divorce then and still under certain circumstances allows it now, He does not change in never intending that, Even as He has said to Israel and threatened Judah with, if she did not change her ways.
"I have divorced you, but I will take you back." He Said, but in those days, it was illegal with God to take back a divorced woman.
So, how can God do something which is illegal for us to do? How can He take her, Israel back, and then her, Judah back, if He also divorces her later, in The Old Testament?
God, can take anyone back in a divorce, unlike humans in the Old Testament.
God, can do that, because there are no other Gods to adulterate with, to go to, to be changed by, to turn into, to become one with, as there are no other Gods that exist, but The God;;; so divorce is merely separation;; but, possibly eternally so, and as such, possibly unbearable, to the point of being destroyed both body and soul.
LOVE,
Identical twins are almost identical but there are a lot of differences. They start off with identical DNA but there are differences as they develop. Because of copy number variants, one is NOT the clone of the other. There can be differences in their DNA. Also you have the "good twin, bad twin" syndrome. Often one gets more nourishment then the other. A lot can be learned from the study of twins.Hello friend and thank you for the reply. That is correct, everything was determined before we were born. However, no two men have ever made the exact same choices. No two men have lived the exact same lives with the exact same experiences.
Imagine two brothers that are identical twins. We'll call them Bob and Ted. Both were born at the same time, with the same pre-conception nourishment and care, and even the same DNA. However, several years after they are born, Bob decides to stay at a friends house on a Saturday night. Bob's friend introduces Bob to heroin (not his will), and Bob (being an immature child unable to fully make a rational decision), after much resistance, is peer-pressured into using the heroin. Bob loves it, and his life is forever changed.
Ted stayed home that night. He wasn't feeling well because he had the flu (not his will). While laid up in his bed with nothing to do but watch tv, he has a very boring night. There is nothing on tv, so Ted finally settles on an episode of "Cops". The police are busting a heroin addict, and Ted sees the addict's children, which look very pitiful because their heroin addict father did not take care of them. Ted is disgusted, and decides that he wants to become a police because he wants to help children such as this.
In one night, two identical twins are set on two very opposite paths. So it is with all of us. All is determined, but it is the things that have been determined that make us individually unique. God has done this, because He doesn't want a bunch of children that think, act, and do the exact same things. He wants many children, each with their own individuality, but all of one mind- to love one another.
I hope that makes sense to you. God bless you friend.
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