I Believe in Predestination But God Has Nothing To Do With It!

Actually, I don’t believe in predestination. We are not robots! I hate predestination and consider it one of the great heretical ideas that have crept into Christian theology, first by the philosophically inclined medieval theologians, but then, in a horribly amplified version of the doctrine, by way of the Calvinists and their double predestination (some are destined for salvation and some for damnation). Through their ardent labor, millions have lived in agony about their whereabouts in the afterlife and have seen, in the misery of their earthly conditions, a sure sign of the divine determination to ransack and haunt them all the way from a hellish earth to a fiery hell.

Say Hello to the Philosophical God

This is what you get when you let philosophical categories determine what you shall say about God. Someone came up with the idea that God is omnipotent, i.e. all-powerful) Don’t be mistaken, it is not primarily the Bible but philosophical ruminations about a mighty God who is sovereign over all creation that led to ideas about a God who is omnipotent. Of course, it didn’t stop there. This omnipotence was defined in terms of there being no limits to God’s ability to do cool and tough things. But if there is no limit to God’s ability or God’s knowledge, and if nothing escapes God’s…