Cole Huffman
Miss Wiesman
English
24 September 2010
Free will vs. predestination
When confronted with perdestination versus free will many people have tried to find a definative answer, but cannot find a strait forward conclusion to their question. Predecination is self explanitory, it means to be pre destined. Free will on the other hand is giving your own independence choices in your life. Many people lean both ways, people believe that Christ knows all but He gives up free will on the choices we do make in our life. For many generations it has been a very heated subject in the Christian community.
Both free will and predestination are supported in the Bible which has given many scholars deeper and more intense study periods on this subject. One verse that supports predestination is Exodus 33:19 is says, ‘ And the Lord said, "I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the Lord, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.” This verse says demonstrates that Christ will put obstacles in our life in which we will have to glorify his name as we go about these hurtles that were put in front of us. A verse that supports free will is Numbers 29:39 which states, " 'In addition to what you vow and your freewill offerings, prepare these for the Lord at your appointed feasts: your burnt offerings, grain offerings, drink offerings and fellowship offerings. ' " This is talking about what christ is looking for in a feast stating a question and not a direct command to the people. This is Christ giving free will among the people. So as we look further ino this controverial subject people get skeptical and tend to lean eather way but there is not any right or wrong answer because the Bible gives close to the same amout of evidence on both sides of the discussion. The question I want to explore is that God knows all but does not predestine us. If not does he give humans the choice of free will knowing the ultimate outcome?
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ReplyDeleteThis will be interesting Cole. This will be an awesome thing to right about and research because so many people are faced with this very question. This could be very intriguing if you don't cut any corners and do as much research as you can. I'd use a lot of information from the bible as well as other religious books. This could be awesome if you go all out! GOD LUCK COLE!
ReplyDeleteCole!
ReplyDeleteYou are starting out your essay well! Some things I would recommend is in your first paragraph go more into what predestination and free will are. Also make sure you re read your paragraphs because there are some words spelt wrong but that is an easy fix! In your second paragraph try to go more into the controversy between predestination and free will and try to save the quotes for predestination and free will for your 3rd and 4th paragraphs. This is an interesting subject as I am doing the same subject and I am looking forward to comparing our essays and see what we both came up with:)