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1. Love Thine Enemies (December 2006) 2. Prophecy and Free Will (March 2007) 3. The Sin of Interest (March 2007) 4. Law and Justice (April 2007) 5. Cooperation and the Silent Wars (May 2007) 6. Forgiveness (June/July 2007) 2. Prophecy and Free Will (March 2007) There is a dilemma concerning prophecy. Let us reason this out with an example. You are told by a renowned clairvoyant that you will die in a car accident tomorrow. As the result of this frightful prediction you stay in bed for the whole day with the consequence that you are still alive at the end of the day and the prophecy does not eventuate. Was the prophecy true or false? Logic would tell you that the prophecy was false because the prophecy did not come to pass. Yet one would wonder what would have happened if you had not consulted the clairvoyant or decided to ignore the prediction and drive in your car the next day. However if prophecies concerning future events always came true then despite any efforts on your part to avoid your fate by staying at home the prediction would still come about, perhaps by a car crashing into your house and killing you while you lay in bed! The study of prophesies reveals that great numbers of prophecies about future events have indeed come to pass. Perhaps the most renowned clairvoyant on future events was Nostradamus (1503-1566) who foretold events for hundreds of years in the future up to this present time. Then this question must come to mind: do we have free will or are our destinies pre-determined and we are helpless to change these destinies? To accept fate would be to deny that we have free will and therefore the ability to change our future depending on how we use our free will. Edgar Cayce had discussions on this subject and stated many times that we do indeed have free will and our thoughts of today create our tomorrow. Then perhaps a reason why the prophecies of past events came about was because the participants in the events were not consciously aware of the prophecies and therefore were not in a position to make choices which would result in changing the predicted future. On the other hand if we were made aware of the prophecies and made efforts to avoid them this could thwart the predicted fate. This use of our free will would then account for the failure of many prophecies to eventuate. There arises from this another question: if we do indeed have free will and the future will depend on our use of this free will does God know the future is He omniscient? This would appear to be a paradox for if we are to accept that we have free will then the future cannot be predetermined and God would not know the future He would not be omniscient. This question was put to Cayce who gave this answer: Having given free will, then, - though having the foreknowledge, though being omnipotent and omnipresent, - it is only when the soul that is a portion of God CHOOSES that God knows the end thereof. 5749 14 An interpretation of this is that God reads our hearts not our actions and when we make a choice God will know what is in our hearts and from that He will know what our futures will be. B.D.A. 1. Love Thine Enemies (December 2006) 2. Prophecy and Free Will (March 2007) 3. The Sin of Interest (March 2007) 4. Law and Justice (April 2007) 5. Cooperation and the Silent Wars (May 2007) 6. Forgiveness (June/July 2007) |
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