Predestination

Simple Foreknowledge and the idea of hard and soft facts, even though it is supposedly a “simple” view of God’s foreknowledge is a very hard view to understand. However, the middle knowledge, or Molinistic view tries to explain Gods foreknowledge through a belief in counterfactuals and three different types of knowledge that God has. A counterfactual is a conditional statement, or as explained by William Lane Craig, are statements that “are antecedent or consequent clauses [that] are typically…

he act of fatalism acknowledges that everything is predetermined, but suddenly a war breaks out between two different factions and you're the leader of one of them, and the world you once lived in starts to break apart. You know that there will be casualties, death, the length of this fighting won’t be short, and only one will stand out victorious. This leaves the question, was this destined to happen? Although William’s Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet illustrates the struggle between free will…

The Waking by Theodore Roetheke As the speaker awakens from deep sleep, he comes back into consciousness very slowly and in a temporary state of fogginess and confusion. As this occurs, he contemplates life very closely in a way that makes readers engage with his concern about how their lives are being lived. In The Waking by Theodore Roetheke, the author constantly refers to fate in order to emphasize his belief that life is predestined, which makes the audience question how their lives…

Determinism and Freedom of Will Terresa C Knowles Philosophy Paper 2 Introduction: According to Merriam-Webstera.com, “Determinisms Theory or Doctrine that acts of the will, occurrences in nature, or social or psychological phenomena are causally determined by preceding events or natural laws”. I can understand with agreeing with that the free will and determinism are similarly compatibilities, even when we take free will to require the ability to do otherwise and even when we interpret that…

Run Lola Run begins with the following questions, which I would like to pose to you “Who are we?”, “Where do we come from?”, “Where are we going?”, whilst these existential questions are extremely difficult to answer individually, T.S Elliot successfully conveys his thoughts of these life questions through the quote “We shall not cease from exploration…and the end of our exploring will be to arrive where we started…and know the place for the first time”. Continue to ponder these questions while…

When discussing evil and the existent of God the question “Is God a participant in this chaos?” comes up quite often. Theologians have different opinions about the answer to this question, but John Calvin has a stance on this idea of evil and God. John Calvin has clearly laid out his stance of perfect world theodicy in his writing of sdfjds,fh. Perfect world theodicy would agree that God is apart off all things in the world. His involvement would include the Creation, the Fall, everyday life,…

It is both fascinating and disturbing to examine the problem of free will. As intelligent beings, we ironically want nothing more than to nod our heads aggressively in agreement to the concept. However when one digs deeper into what free will is and what it does or does not imply, it’s inevitable that we are nodding not because the factors of it are logical and non-contrary, but because we refuse to accept the rattling notion that our lives are, essentially not our own to govern So what exactly…

Since I began studying the Christian faith, the idea of predestination versus free will has captured my attention. This is, obviously, not a new idea within the Christian tradition. From Augustine and the Council of Orange in 529, to the debates between Gottschalk and Rabanus, to the theology of John Calvin and John Wesley, the concepts of predestination and free will have been discussed at great length. Within the subject of predestination versus free will, however, there is another issue that…

During the times of the Classical Greeks, culture began to abandon the principle of fate, and, at the same time, moved toward a firm belief in free will. In The Iliad, which Homer wrote around 750 BCE ("Reading the Iliad." Reading the Iliad. Web.), the author suggested that the people of the time had no control over their actions; rather, the gods controlled everything. In contrast, in Oedipus Rex, which Sophocles wrote in 429 B.C. ("Background for Antigone." Background for Antigone. Web.),…

Determinism is the observation that the rules of nature jointly with the world 's initial state are enough to verify the state of the world at all other direct in the prospect. What "determine" represents here isn 't forever obvious, other than generally what citizens have in brain is something similar to "derivability": and also determinism is the observation that individual could derive (in an perfect logic of "derive") all other prospect state of the world just from the earth 's preliminary…