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If a toaster could talk, it would be the happiest little toaster in the world, simply because it would know it was fulfilling its purpose whenever the lever went down and toast popped out. If a robot could be designed to experience pain and then experienced pain, I imagine in some capacity it would be informed about serving some purpose in experiencing pain, and therefore would be still fulfilling its given duty and job while experiencing pain, like a soldier or a crash test dummy.

As far as I've heard it, God's Will can be classified four ways: The Preordained Will of God, The Preferred Will of God, The Permissible Will of God and The Proactive Will of God. The Preordained Will of God is synonymous with God's 'predestination', that is, something that is his will which WILL come to pass, regardless of the course of history. He has made a promise and the course of the universe and human will does not have a "choice" in the matter. Such events like the Abrahamic Covenant, the Second Coming of Jesus, the Apocalypse, etc. These events WILL happen because God has Pre-ordained them to occur. The Preferred Will of God is concerned with Morality: he has left us free to choose between being in favour of his morals, or rejecting him. He does not prefer us rejecting him, but it is also his will for us to be free to do so. Without this Freedom of Choice and empowerment of our own will, Love would be impossible. If we could not choose between Loving him and loving something else, then we would just be robots that are programmed to like him, and existence would have a futile purpose in regards to human reason. This is what makes it possible that people can chose to believe God or not believe God. How this is then reconciled with Romans 8:30 "And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified." is the fact that The Predestination of our belief can only be observed though retrospect. We have free will and full responsibility for our choices, but we only see that God is sovereign through all of our choices after seeing how he works through what has already come to be. We are free to draw our own lines, but all things are under God's control because he in a sense is the paper on which we are drawing. How this can be fully reconciled with "God's Complete Predestination vs. Free Choice" is that not all events are Predestined to occur. God predestined Christ to suffer and die on a cross, but he did not predestine you to be late for the bus or for an avalanche to occur (necessarily. See below.) But the final nail the coffin I would like to say, is that this matter, while complex and interesting, is not a matter which has solid enough bearing to disestablish a possible Faith in God if it is rejected. The concern over Predestination vs. Free Choice is only a concern which Post-Modern Enlightenment-saturated Philosophy members of Western Society find a hard time with. Most other cultures do not have a problem with this either way. Do not think that your cultural moment and location in the world is tantamount reason to consider the merits of Faith on the basis of this axiom alone. The Permissible Will of God is largely concerned with God's ability to work through allowing Demons and dark forces to influence the world. This aspect of God's will is almost exclusively spiritual and non-material in form, and is primarily about explaining things that happen in the Old Testament. Events such as "Now the Spirit of the LORD had departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD tormented him." (1 Samuel 16:14, NIV. Note, Saul here is King Saul I of Israel, not Saul who is named Paul of Tarsus from the book of Acts.) An alternative form of this verse would be "And an evil spirit tormented [saul] that was permitted from the LORD". This would also be the case for the opening chapter in the Book of Job, where Job is attacked by Satan directly, after requesting to do so from God. This indicates that even the sinful influence of dark powers on the world is something that can happen only if God allows it to happen. (Why is a whole matter of its own.) The Proactive Will of God is God's direct intervention into the world by way of Miracles and such, and things that come about by means of Intercessory Prayer. This is often seen in Spiritual Gifts as described by Paul in II Timothy and Ephesians. Things can happen directly through God yanking the control from physics and whatnot to make some tings that would otherwise be impossible, occur. This is how the Red Sea parted.

I play drums.

Let's see if I can remember all the things that are happening in the next few weeks: Tonight: school carolling Friday & Saturday: Christmas concert event Wednesday next: Christmas Market in Stuttgart Friday next: Big special meal before school break Saturday next: Cleanup day, and school departure day for the break.

This is a multi-colored question to a black and white answer.

I'm sorry I couldn't make this message any shorter.

*in I'm going to beat you to death with the gutter your mind is in.

I found Pinkie Pie.

Atheists don't believe in nothing. They believe in anything.

People my age think I'm weird if I look at a slice of pizza with a scrutinous eye. People my age I think are weird if they don't try tipping their slice of pizza to one side and watching all of the grease drip off.

Whichever the two of us find the most fun to do together. Cooking it is then.

Which is more important for the woman to do; cooking or cleaning?

Your only feel is the feels you get from your special somepony. Go away

Hurr British Queens

Why u guys post so many youtube videos that I can't watch!

See you guys in 4 months. I ain't watching Season 3 until after the finale.

Whelp, good night everybody.

I have travelled here from last week to bring the following message: "Hi."

My own body weight per hour. Will you be among the hot 60s looking girls to bid farewell to the spacenauts adventuring to mars in 2035? And if not, how come?

I went to the Friedrichshafen Zeppelin Museum. The best place in the world to learn about airships. It was wonderful and magical and I loved it.

Sugar and spice and everything nice.

This isn't the Argument clinic either. Oh I'm sorry, is this Abuse? I was looking for Getting Hit on the Head lessons.

That moment when some jackass says to himself "I genuinely believe it is a good idea to help others have sexual fantasies of this, therefore I will make porn out of it."

I've never had faith in humanity. Left to our own devices, a bunch of pus-squirming rodents is all we are.

Single Trooper Aerial Platform.