Is the Bible a stumbling block to God for some people---a fact that He foreknew?
I don't know about the Bible, but divine foreknowledge is itself a stumbling block in conventional religious belief.
For consider this: If God knows the future, he knows what we are going to do. Suppose I am walking down a trail and I come to a fork. I can either go left or right. But God knows and has always known that I'm going to the left. So how can I go right?
It's not like God is going to make a mistake, see me walking off to the right and scream out, "Whoa! Whoa! Where on earth are you going? You're supposed to go left!"
So apparently I have no free will, even though I think I do. I have to go left.
And if we have no free will, the concept of sin is meaningless.
But to get back to the Bible, the various prophesies of Jesus--"Peter, you will betray me before the cock crows thrice"--or something like that--seem not relevant to me as regards how seriously one takes the story of Jesus.
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This message has been edited by robinrohan, 09-14-2005 04:20 PM
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