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if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.
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predestination
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Charles Dickens |
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This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.
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predestination
labyrinth
question
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Neal Stephenson |
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If a dream can tell the future it can also thwart that future. For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come. He is bound to no one that the world unfold just so upon its course and those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?
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fate
predestination
sorcery
prophecy
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Cormac McCarthy |
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But if everything's already decided, then what's the point of living? - Tom, pg 437
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choice
living
predestination
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Joseph Delaney |
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Eddie Fislinger's church was an octagonal affair, with the pulpit in one angle, an arrangement which produced a fascinating, rather dizzy effect, reminiscent of the doctrine of predestination.
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church-architecture
predestination
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Sinclair Lewis |
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"No attempt should be made to "reconcile" Yahweh's hardening of Pharaoh's heart (plagues 6,8,9,10) with statements in the other plagues that Pharaoh hardened his own heart. The tension cannot be resolved in a facile manner by suggesting, for example, that Pharaoh has already demonstrated his recalcitrance, so Yahweh merely helps the process along, or that he is doing what Pharaoh would have done on his own anyway. Rather, 9:12 is a striking reminder of what God has been trying to teach Moses and Israel since the beginning of the Exodus episode: He is in complete control. However Pharaoh might have reacted is given the chance is not brought into the discussion. He is not even given that chance. Yahweh hardens his heart. It is best to allow the tension of the text to remain."
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free-will
god
pharaoh
yahweh
predestination
sovereignty
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