Sentences with phrase «god is the logical choice»

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There can be no doubt that God makes decisions a propos of the disjunctive multiplicity of eternal objects; the difficulty is to establish in precisely what sense these divine decisions are distinguishable from the choices and calculations made by the Leibnizian deity Whitehead's dilemma seems to be this: on the one hand, the principle of classification is to be challenged by positing the primordiality of a world of eternal objects that knows «no exclusions, expressive in logical terms»; on the other hand, positing pure potentiality as a «boundless and unstructured infinity» (IWM 252) lacking all logical order would seem to be precisely that conceptual move which renders it «inefficacious» or «irrelevant.»

Arminians often met this objection to foreknowledge by appealing to a logical distinction between necessity and certainty.5 The fact that God foreknows that choice X is going to be made (freely) means only that X is certain to occur; it does not mean that God's foreknowledge, or any other cause, necessitated X.

Whether to follow his example or not is a personal choice everyone gets to make, but at least make an informed choice, knowing who Jesus actually was, and what he actually did and is doing, and not assuming the the over 44,000 Christian denominations are all telling the truth — not even logical since they are all saying different things, and the Bible says God's people would be united.

The only logical choice for one claiming that there is no god is to be an agnostic (there is a possibility of a god but I have no knowledge for whatever reason).

----- — The only choice I've made, is to use the mind God gave me to think critically, to analyze, and to use a logical decision making process.

I also believe that my faith is a choice, and am not so deluded as to think that there is either a valid, logical proof for the existence of God, or some kind of irrefutable physical evidence for God's existence.