John 10:14Frau Holle wrote: ↑Sun Aug 02, 2020 7:58 pmWhat is the difference if you think humanity is an entity ? ...Aletheia wrote: ↑Sun Aug 02, 2020 6:18 pmThere's a difference between letting a child burn a finger on a hot saucepan so that particular child, later in life, might avoid greater harm...Frau Holle wrote: ↑Sun Aug 02, 2020 9:10 am Some people believe that everything happens for a reason, everyone who was tortured, raped, killed and set on fire had it done to them in the unfolding of a plan that had already been decided before time began.
The belief that humans have free will and at the same time will have their every move foreknown is not a contradiction, it’s a belief based on small glimpses of knowing your child will make a mistake, but allowing them to learn on their own because the lesson is more important than the pain.
and allowing a child to be killed horrifically so that A DIFFERENT child might learn a lesson from it.
it’s almost irrelevant what a single person goes through in the grand scheme of things so long as it is God’s will.
I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me
John 10:3
To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
Matthew 10:29-31
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.