Does God have a plan?

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Does God have a plan?

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"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much." — Jim Rohn

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If He's not black i.e. if He's not a raven, He should have a plan. In other words, sensu latissimo, if Trump (he is not black, hopefully) is not among the planless, God, a fortiori, has a plan.
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Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.”
Mark 10:27

In other words: All things are possible with God, including ''With man this is impossible'' :?
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Dontaskme wrote: Fri Mar 10, 2023 10:00 am "If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much." — Jim Rohn

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I think it would be more accurate just to say: "If you don't design your own life plan, you may fall into someone else's plan." for those of us who don't have a plan, there are mental hospitals or else wondering the streets panhandling. It's difficult sometimes to imagine which is worse. When life is over for someone, it's just over. If there's a God, then perhaps we are little more than lab mice in his zoo or fish in his aquarium. If he gets bored or disgusted and his aquarium doesn't entertain him anymore, perhaps he simply goes off and leaves it to its own devices. We human beings have no "rights". Our individual wills mean nothing in the grand scheme of things.
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No one knows what's going to happen until it's happened and nothing ever happened, except as reactionary to this immediate unknowing now.


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"Abdul (BANG!) it's a (BANG! BANG!) d-(BANG!)"
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God (according to the conventional Christian philosophy) exists outside of time. Consequently the concept of "planning" cannot be part of "his" thinking (I'm humouring, for the moment, the notion that God is a conservative old white guy in the sky). He necessarily conceives of reality as a finished whole, in a sense which would appear to us instantaneous. It's true that in the earlier portions of the corpus which Christians call the Old Testament he appears to be temporal, but these are folk tales of no philosophical or religious significance.
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