Issues+of+Predestination+and+Predicting+the+future

=**Issues of Predestination and predicting the future**=

Predestination is a religious idea that is thought as the relationship between the beginning of something and the destiny of something is discussed. This usually involves consideration of whether God is omniscient or atemporal. In these ideas, God may see the past, present, or future.One of the worst issues in the Protestant tradition is election, or predestination. The trouble arises when the issues of reconciling God's love for the world, God's apparent favoritism of some people , the gravity of sin and divine initiative. Election's doctrinal history is reviewed and a remedy is offered ( one the casts the election in a different light by changing its terms.

Long before we got civilized, ancient Europeans were already talking about predestination ( this included the Greeks, Vikings, and others ). If something was to happen, it would happen and we couldn't do anything about it. The theme of predestination and fate in Greek literature is analyzed through a focus on three characters from antiquity ; Achilles, Admetus , Sarpedon and Oedipos. The last being compared to the two modern science fiction films, “ Terminator“.

It is said that the future belongs to time and exists after the present. What is after this point can be the realm of possibility and probability and can be ruled by predestination. People have very strong desire to believe in the power of supernatural prediction that they invent stories of psychic predictions being fulfilled. Ancient people may or wanted to be impressed by the fulfillment of prophecies. In our world, most predictions by “physics” do not come true. But being that people want to believe in supernatural and people like to tell each other about the rare occasions when something happens that a psychic predicted. Believing in predestination frees people from worry. A lot of Christians believe that we are responsible for our behavior even though God knows what we will do so Christians have argued and predestination from New Testament days.

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