If you must have "GOD & being RESPONSIBLE" then how is that being free?
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it's another contradiction. you see they have a preset destiny in which they have the right to alter at anytime. you see it's simple
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Simple answer:\n\nWith freedom comes responsibility.
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Belive in GOD!OF course,why not you got nothing to lose.Really.Think about it.If there is a NO GOD you prayed,you lived your life's buy a code,in which any person can embrass.Think of it buying insurnce for your soul.Just like you buy insurnce for your car,home.If your home,car breaks or skrew's up,your safe!But if there is no insurnce and their is a GOD your in trouble!Really what do you got to LOSE?
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Is it only God that motivates your behaviour?  Where is personal responsibility for interaction with others?
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We are all given a free will. What we do with our lives is our own choice. There are alot of things that may happen in our lives that could be very distracting on your journey. We have destiny, but without GOD we turn it into fate on our own. Everyone needs a guide to help them learn and grow throughout their lives. Sometimes the t.v. could be one, or music could be another one. That's where the working hard and praying come into play. GOD wants to be your guide if you want GOD to be your guide. As evil things can misguide. GOD is there if you want or need help.\n\nAnd I hope everyone remembers that people from other countries have/use Yahoo! too...and some Yahoo!ers use, speak or type ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE. Also deaf people do not always type the way people of hearing do. So stop being rude and answering questions with unnecessary comments!
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simply put, it is true that we should have freedom but most people that are advocates of 'freedom' in all its forms forget that having freedom is not one-sided.  freedom's twin is 'responsibility'.  one's freedom ends when it starts to encroach on another's.  freedom should be viewed in the correct perspective.  rules and regulations and norms are in place to enforce some sort of order.  but better than rules and regulations are PRINCIPLES.  when we know, have and practice the correct set of principles (which can be summarized into two: love God with all our heart, soul, mind, strength; and love our neighbor as ourselves) then we are able to live responsibly and know the limitations of our freedom.
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If there is anything in the universe that your god is not responsible for then he can't be god.  End of story.
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THAT'S GOOD...\n  you don't ask GOD for money, you have to work for it....\n\n  GOD don't give what your wants, but HE provide your needs!!!!
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No tithing is not a requirement of God in these times.\nJesus does however say that you recieved freely so give freely.\nIf you are under obligation to tithe then it is not a free gift.\nTrue christians help from the heart not because a religion makes them feel obligated
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Yes, God has the power to predestine or not predestine our lives as He so chooses.  I agree with you in that I believe we have free choice.  I don't understand so easily how you come to know the mind of God.  Everyone is selected for His service, and everyone is blessed.  We need not seek Him, since He is already knocking on the door of our hearts.  All we must do is let Him in.  Yes, because of our freedom of choice, if we choose to follow God, we will be with Him forever in heaven.
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I do.  Christianity?  Free?  Never.  Although I am a very religious Christian, Christianity tells people exactly what to do and what not to do.  What to believe and what to scourn upon.  Christianity is not in the least bit 'Free'.  Take 'Inherit the Wind' for example.  If Christianity were free, no one would have a problem with Bert Cates teaching the section of darwinism in his Biology class.
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There are no constraints on God.
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God has a raison in everything\nMaybe he needs to give us a notice\nOr punish the family\nOr make it as an example for other
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That very much depends on whether or not you believe in a God or gods. Without one there is no good, bad, or foolish, so we can't.
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A combination of both.\n\n1. We are free to choose, at any given instance and depending on our degree of conscious awareness of our actions and overall motivations, any action possible.\n\n2. There are only a given number of possibilities. I am not able to pick up a cup - with my hand - that is 2000 miles away from me.  This is similar to the way that predestination works - God knows what I will do because he knows my heart, my potential, and my capabilities at any given instant.\n\n~ There is no discrepancy between the two if you realize that God operates outside our conventional viewpoint regarding time.  All things that have occured since the beginning of TIME until the end of TIME (the discussion of what this entails is quite complicated and another matter entirely) are within the scope of God's apprehension and understanding.
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No.  Freewill was created by religion to explain why an all-powerful god can't do something.
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I'm sorry - you seem to have produced an opinionated rant rather than a question.  \n\nIf there is no God and only karma then there is no need for any morality at all because cosmically my actions will eventually all balance out.  If all actions are paid back as consequences then there there is no logical motivation to do anything remotely selfish as you will suffer for it.  And also one can not perform a good of selfless deed as you will be in a very direct way the benificiary in the long run.\nThus if one cannot perform a selfish act without it being agaisnt one's own interest and one cennot help someone without cosmically benefitting then there is absolutly no basis for ethics or morality.\nBy this thinking I could go out and murder ten children and eat their still warm innards knowing fully that I would bear the consequenes of my actions and because of this I would not really have done an act which would make the world any worse.  And conversly I could choose to become a doctor just to gain the benefits of helping others.\n\nI cannot accept this as being the case.  If karma removes morality by ensuring balanced and equal consequence to every deed I do it essentially removes the concepts of free will, and ethics and reduces humanity to cosmic automata no different to innanimate objects on any moral level. \n\nAlthough you may think me stupid I will go on in believing in things like God, freedom of choice, morality, good, evil and ethical choice, because a universe with only karma is essentially amoral and therefore, in my opinion, ethically worthless.