Persuasive Essay On Predestination

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we get to be the deciding factor. The deciding factor that we are given is called our free will, that God has given us so we do not end up like those robots, and this is also why predestination is flawed. Per Hasle says the main problem to predestination “is whether God died for all men, or for ‘the Elect’” (339). The meaning Per is asking of that is that in the Bible Jesus died for all men’s sins not just the select few and the ones that are damned to hell will never get their sins forgiven. Therefore, external reality is that flawed meaning of predestination, and the free will aspect of things, it is Newton’s third law, in a way, for every action there is an equal or opposite reaction, just like life for every action we do or decision we make …show more content…
Sire challenges the human race with asking this question, because as humans we never really think what exactly are we, what are the characteristics we hold, we are too busy trying to figure what the next species of fish is and what are its characteristics. A human being is the most advanced creature on this planet, yes we are creatures just like a dog and ape, but we are the only creatures to take on a spirit. Larsen, from the University of Oslo, says “The spirit is the one acting while the human body only serves as the spirit’s receptacle” (8). Larsen is talking about actual human spirits and not the Holy Spirit, but it works for both. Our flesh bodies serve as a disguise for our spirit, ad when we die our spirit goes up to heaven and our bodies stay here. A spirit is something that makes humans a unique creature, spirits give us that itch or grief when you are about to do something bad, the spirit knows it’s bad but our flesh wants what the flesh wants and so that is when you are put into a situation on what to pick. I have been in many of those situations where I have the gut feeling of knowing that what I am about to do is bad, but my flesh simply does not care and

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