Sentences with phrase «imply predestination»

A closed timelike curve seems to imply predestination: We know what is going to happen to us in the future because we witnessed it in our past.

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Because God made the human being in His own image, the Calvinistic predestination doctrine implies that God decided to make a living being in His own image, of which he would beforehand already reject and condemn part?

The ability to love implies, thirdly, that we risk our existence in a relationship where predestination, in the sense of determination by something less than person will, would destroy the meaning of love.

The much more detailed kind of predestination implied by closed timelike curves, where it seems that we simply can not make certain choices (like walking away after meeting a future version of ourselves), is bothersome.

We would also have to abandon free will — because witnessing part of our future history implies some amount of predestination.