What goes through his mind at a moment like this?I hope you read that Rick Reilly column I linked to the other night. You also need to read this non-sports sports story about the Cardinals QB:
Kurt Warner
Pam broiled cookies this afternoon.
I know, you're thinking, "You mean baked cookies."
No, she meant bake cookies.
And broiled cookies, they don't work so well.
Suns lose by one at the buzzer. Aaargh.
But the Lakes put a whoopin' on the evil Celtics! Booyah!
Tonight's end-of-the-year list is:
The Dumbest Move by a Politician
- Rob Blagoijavech asking for a quid pro quo in return for an appointment to Obama's Senate seat...and doing it on tape...when he knew his phones were bugged!
Is God's foreknowledge based on his sovereignty? Or is his sovereignty based on his foreknowledge?
That is, does God know what's going to happen because he decreed it all? Or did he decree events because he knew in advance what was going to happen?
This question is especially significant with regard to human behavior. Did God elect to salvation based on his sovereignty or his foreknowledge of what an individual would decide?
Two blondes are walking down the street and one says, "Look at that dog with one eye!"
The other blonde covers one of her eyes and says, "Why?"
Like most people I prefer life with sharp, distinct lines. Sometimes it's very, very complex.
A local man followed two boys, cousins age 7 and 10, to a neighborhood playground. He beat them both with an aluminum baseball bat so severely that it took doctors some time to figure out what caused their injuries; they at first thought they'd been shot with a shotgun. Neither of the boys is expected to survive.
My immediate instinct is that no punishment is too harsh for this guy. Then I read that, according to a relative, he has been diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Assuming that's the case, is he culpable? Is someone disconnected from reality responsible for his actions, no matter how terrible they are?
Discuss.
Colds suck. And I've tried answering the ringing in my ears but I can't get it to stop.
3 comments:
If God only has sovereignty based on foreknowledge, then I a greatly worried about His omniscience. Pray He didn't guess wrong on me
Re: Criminal Psychosis -- Our society has to ask the question, "What good can such a person contribrute to his fellow man after proving capable of such an act?" I beleive that the answer to this question is why God has granted human governments permission to exercise the death penalty.
One certainly feels sympathy for the afflicted man with schizprenia, but what good can possibly come from not penalizing this person to the harshest possible punishment for the crime?
Why choose?
I like what Cherston said regarding theological concepts which appear to be in conflict with one another: "When I find two truths in paradox, I pick up both truths and carry the paradox with me."
Our quest to "find" a rational answer to these types of questions is decidedly modern and seems to be the cause of much grief within the Body of Christ. What's wrong with a simple faith that says, "God is in control of all things, but I am responsible for my own actions?"
I tend to think that the resolution of such questions relies too heavily on my puny understanding of God's Truth. To quote (paraphrase) Mr. Chesterton again, "I can glimpse the truth, but only as through a glass, darkly."
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