Lecture IV Freedom, Determinism, & Foreknowledge @1:13 Fatalism and John Calvin @3:00 Mechanism and Behaviorism (B.F. Skinner) @4:22 Hard Determinism (Joke about heredity or environment) and Soft Determinism @6:30 All intelligence is free to act for itself in that sphere in which God has placed it @8:00 God will not / cannot compel you to heaven. You cannot be forced to progress. @9:50 The Screwtape letters by CS Lewis; Strategies of the underworld - Drowning out the deeper, richer insights. @11:30 We elected, prepared, trained, and plead to come to this existence. The metaphor of the true friend’s agreement. “Stop the world so I can get off!” @13:30 Our default false assumptions (Surgery analogy) @15:00 Foreknowledge - How can an omniscient/omnipresent God make predictions and inspirations and we remain generally free? (Compare to trending atheist argument the there is no free will) @16:00 God’s knowledge as anticipation vs actuality. Is knowing causation? @18:00 Choosing between affirmation of Freedom vs God’s knowledge of our future. This would require that all prophecy is conditional. (If clauses) @19:30 Is the timing of the Second Coming of Christ conditional? @21:40 The Heisenberg principle of indeterminacy and it’s application to human freedom @23:40 Without freedom there is no guilt. @25:20 Without freedom there is no regret. Greek stoics. @26:30 William James: My first act of free will is to believe it exists. (BOM: There are things to act and things to be acted upon) Not believing this causes people to be passive, apathetic, unengaged. @27:20 The self contradicting nature of Dialectical Materialism (Marxism) and free will. @28:30 Christian science believes in mind only...no matter. (Think The Matrix) There is tangible evidence that mind can overcome some physical problems. @32:40 Freedom requires responsibility...and presupposes that you KNOW more than you are aware that you know. @34:20 Law does not compel or coerce, it outlines consequences. When given by God it is emancipating, not destructive. @35:25 The meaning of an “Everlasting” Covenant. The power of “I WILL” forever….shakes the heavens. It emulates the covenants of Adam, Abraham, and The Master. @40:00 Perdition - The unpardonable sin. Choosing darkness while standing in the sunlight. @41:40 The freedom to become. No matter our external circumstances..we are divinely, invincibly free.
"We are truly and invincibility free and no one can take that away from us. " How glorious is that. Thank you for the post. My heart is burning with conviction of these truths.
Lecture IV Freedom, Determinism, & Foreknowledge
@1:13 Fatalism and John Calvin
@3:00 Mechanism and Behaviorism (B.F. Skinner)
@4:22 Hard Determinism (Joke about heredity or environment) and Soft Determinism
@6:30 All intelligence is free to act for itself in that sphere in which God has placed it
@8:00 God will not / cannot compel you to heaven. You cannot be forced to progress.
@9:50 The Screwtape letters by CS Lewis; Strategies of the underworld - Drowning out the deeper, richer insights.
@11:30 We elected, prepared, trained, and plead to come to this existence. The metaphor of the true friend’s agreement. “Stop the world so I can get off!”
@13:30 Our default false assumptions (Surgery analogy)
@15:00 Foreknowledge - How can an omniscient/omnipresent God make predictions and inspirations and we remain generally free? (Compare to trending atheist argument the there is no free will)
@16:00 God’s knowledge as anticipation vs actuality. Is knowing causation?
@18:00 Choosing between affirmation of Freedom vs God’s knowledge of our future. This would require that all prophecy is conditional. (If clauses)
@19:30 Is the timing of the Second Coming of Christ conditional?
@21:40 The Heisenberg principle of indeterminacy and it’s application to human freedom
@23:40 Without freedom there is no guilt.
@25:20 Without freedom there is no regret. Greek stoics.
@26:30 William James: My first act of free will is to believe it exists. (BOM: There are things to act and things to be acted upon) Not believing this causes people to be passive, apathetic, unengaged.
@27:20 The self contradicting nature of Dialectical Materialism (Marxism) and free will.
@28:30 Christian science believes in mind only...no matter. (Think The Matrix) There is tangible evidence that mind can overcome some physical problems.
@32:40 Freedom requires responsibility...and presupposes that you KNOW more than you are aware that you know.
@34:20 Law does not compel or coerce, it outlines consequences. When given by God it is emancipating, not destructive.
@35:25 The meaning of an “Everlasting” Covenant. The power of “I WILL” forever….shakes the heavens. It emulates the covenants of Adam, Abraham, and The Master.
@40:00 Perdition - The unpardonable sin. Choosing darkness while standing in the sunlight.
@41:40 The freedom to become. No matter our external circumstances..we are divinely, invincibly free.
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"We are truly and invincibility free and no one can take that away from us. " How glorious is that. Thank you for the post. My heart is burning with conviction of these truths.
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