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I was never good at it but chess is a fun game to play, you have to plan ahead and build your strategy while also anticipating your opponents moves, it really is a good way to use psychology as well you can tell a lot about a person by noticing how they react and think and move in the midst of the game. God however is like a player who has seen every out come of every move before it even happens
Even though God is all-powerful, allowing Him to do everything that can be done, He cannot create round squares or make 2 +2 = 5 or do anything that is logically impossible.
If he can only do what can be done then were the scriptures lying when is written that all things are possible with God? So God can't make 2 + 2 = 5, are you sure? Matt. 6:27
“God created things which had free will. That means creatures which can go wrong or right. Some people think they can imagine a creature which was free but had no possibility of going wrong, but I can't. If a thing is free to be good it's also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. A world of automata - of creatures that worked like machines - would hardly be worth creating. The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. And for that they've got to be free.”
"Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently, He thought it worth the risk…..If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will, that is, for making a real world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings, then we may take it is a price worth paying.”
There are 318,979,564,000 possible ways to play the first four moves of chess.
In addition, America's Foundation for Chess found that there were
169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the first
ten moves of chess. There are more possible moves in a game of
chess than there are atoms in the universe, say some. Yeah, mind
boggling for sure, but God knows every single one of them
There are more 40-move games than the number of electrons in our universe.
There are more game-trees of chess than the number of galaxies (100+ billion), and
more openings, defences, gambits, etc. than the number of quarks in our universe!
--Chesmayne
There are 318,979,564,000 possible ways to play the first four moves of chess.
In addition, America's Foundation for Chess found that there were
169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the first
ten moves of chess. There are more possible moves in a game of
chess than there are atoms in the universe, say some. Yeah, mind
boggling for sure, but God knows every single one of them
There are more 40-move games than the number of electrons in our universe.
There are more game-trees of chess than the number of galaxies (100+ billion), and
more openings, defences, gambits, etc. than the number of quarks in our universe!
--Chesmayne [FONT=&]
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I follow neither Calvin nor Armenius; rather I follow some simple minded brothers and sisters who can barely read or write, but they feel God in their hearts. They thank God for having written their names in the Book of Life, but never stop working in His vineyard.
I actually have done extensive study more than once on the attributes of God and this is what i have found in Bible. According to the omniscience of God as per the Bible, He knows all things past, present and future no matter what choices we make. He knows what the outcome will be no matter which choice we make. Because God is omniscient there is nothing that surprises God because He knew the outcome before hand.
My view is this and from reading all the posts I am not sure if I agree
or disagree with all of them. My opinion is this: God gives us free
choice and it is our part to accept or reject Him. While we have that
choice and God knows what we will choose, He doesn't intervene in
the choice we make.
I actually have done extensive study more than once on the attributes of God and this is what i have found in Bible. According to the omniscience of God as per the Bible, He knows all things past, present and future no matter what choices we make. He knows what the outcome will be no matter which choice we make. Because God is omniscient there is nothing that surprises God because He knew the outcome before hand.
How do you explain away stories such as the book of Jonah? There are examples similar throughout the Bible where God changes His mind after He has declared something to come to pass. It's showing mercy to those who respond to His word.
I actually have done extensive study more than once on the attributes of God and this is what i have found in Bible. According to the omniscience of God as per the Bible, He knows all things past, present and future no matter what choices we make. He knows what the outcome will be no matter which choice we make. Because God is omniscient there is nothing that surprises God because He knew the outcome before hand.
Nice write up I agree, Jonah going to Nineveh to tell them to repent is a good example, God already knew the people in that city from the king to the least that all of them would repent, God also knew Jonah was going to be angry no matter the outcome because Jonah wanted the city in ruins no matter if the people repented or not. IMO the story was mostly about Jonah and how he was handling his emotions.
Nice write up I agree, Jonah going to Nineveh to tell them to repent is a good example, God already knew the people in that city from the king to the least that all of them would repent, God also knew Jonah was going to be angry no matter the outcome because Jonah wanted the city in ruins no matter if the people repented or not. IMO the story was mostly about Jonah and how he was handling his emotions.
Jonah's message was not one of repentance. One would have to add to the word of God to make that so. Jonah's message was a message of upcoming destruction, "Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown."