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can’t say I like the idea of not being in control of my own destiny,” he said eventually. “If everything is already laid out, if there really is a Grand Design, wouldn’t that mean we have no free will?”
Nihim grunted. “I can’t tell you how many times I heard that same question debated, back in the Augurs’ day,” he admitted. “There are a lot of
James Islington • The Shadow of What Was Lost
I do not pretend to understand all of the ways of God or his particular timetable for grappling with evil. Perhaps if God dealt with evil in the overbearing way that we wish, he would defeat his ultimate purpose. We are responsible human beings, not blind automatons; persons, not puppets. By endowing us with freedom, God relinquished a measure of
... See moreMartin Luther King Jr. • Strength to Love
The divine “perhaps” is not epistemic uncertainty (God knows whether they will repent). It is ontological respect. God has created beings whose freedom God will not override. The “perhaps” acknowledges that humans could repent or could refuse, and God has bound Himself not to force the outcome.
Abraham’s “perhaps” marks the boundary of human
... See moreTo address both the frame problem and the fine-tuning conundrum, I propose that the continuum of possibilities is itself structured by what we may as well call a divine act. This is not the notion of God as an external watchmaker who meticulously designs each actual outcome. Rather, I draw on Whitehead’s process philosophy to argue that the divine... See more