tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2656181765145241350.post8377111074231641490..comments2023-11-02T08:25:17.606-07:00Comments on I wonder as I wander: Gobble-planning God.OneSmallStephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189124855157679020noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2656181765145241350.post-26978990273072149892009-08-15T11:13:43.928-07:002009-08-15T11:13:43.928-07:00Lorena,
**But speaking of the "Perfect Plan,...Lorena,<br /><br />**But speaking of the "Perfect Plan," I am one who fell for that. I was going insane trying to figure out if I was following my "perfect" plan or had gone astray.**<br /><br />I proofread a story for a friend, and it had a Christian protagonist. This protagonist ended up making some bad choices, but convinced that each choice was what God wanted her to do -- and with each choice, she did feel a "sense of peace." <br /><br />Yet, choice C was "obviously" the choice that God wanted her to follow. How did she reach this determination? Because someone stopped her with the first two choices, so obviously, those were the wrong choices.<br /><br />My reaction: SEriously? THis is the method for determining what God's plan is? That isn't a method, that's interpreting things after the fact! It's incredibly convenient that whatever happens also corresponds to whatever God's plan was. And why couldn't God be clearer in the first place?OneSmallStephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08189124855157679020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2656181765145241350.post-28489633274783872712009-08-10T22:02:57.636-07:002009-08-10T22:02:57.636-07:00I agree with Sarge. Religion did make me into a dr...I agree with Sarge. Religion did make me into a drama Queen with narcissistic tendencies and paranoid delusions (I am so important that everybody is looking at me).<br /><br />But speaking of the "Perfect Plan," I am one who fell for that. I was going insane trying to figure out if I was following my "perfect" plan or had gone astray.<br /><br />In reality life is unpredictable and whatever path we take will bring us both sorrow and happiness. Trying to make perfect decisions is so stressful that one often ends up making all the wrong turns out of pure anxiety.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2656181765145241350.post-83826331975603336692009-08-10T17:12:04.390-07:002009-08-10T17:12:04.390-07:00Sarge,
**I've also noticed that this "pl...Sarge,<br /><br />**I've also noticed that this "plan" seems to involve these people being knotheads and pains in the ass to the max.**<br /><br />I think it would be difficult to remain humble when that must merge with the notion that this all-powerful, all-knowing deity who created the universe happens to care for you so much that He oversees every detail in your life, and died for you. Though how something eternal can die is a mystery.OneSmallStephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08189124855157679020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2656181765145241350.post-128731613984880292009-08-10T17:07:17.912-07:002009-08-10T17:07:17.912-07:00Reuban,
**s/he will sometimes make statements alo...Reuban,<br /><br />**s/he will sometimes make statements along the lines of understanding the way in which their previous plan was destined for ruin.**<br /><br />The other annoying thing would be that the only method to determine the plan that God would want for a person is determined when a person is at the end of his/her life. Because you can't determine that at 20. It would only be at 80 or something, after spending one's life as a busperson at a restaurant that you could conclusively say what God's plan was.OneSmallStephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08189124855157679020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2656181765145241350.post-18635200616147146492009-08-10T04:36:01.809-07:002009-08-10T04:36:01.809-07:00Have you ever noticed how many of the "believ...Have you ever noticed how many of the "believer" community seem to regard their life as a sort of a drama?<br /><br />They are the star (their deity has a somewhat ambivilant place, sometimes top billing, sometimes director/producer/script services)and they follow this "plan" with all its tribulations, joys sorrows. They depart from the script and the "director" has a hissy until they get back on track. "Script changes" are somewhat problematic as the "director" doesn't actually SAY anything.<br /><br />Others in their lives sometimes aren't "real" if you actually look, just "spear carriers" necessary to the plot.<br /><br />I've also noticed that this "plan" seems to involve these people being knotheads and pains in the ass to the max.Sargenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2656181765145241350.post-25381584988102298072009-08-09T15:37:20.010-07:002009-08-09T15:37:20.010-07:00You're right of course, said Christian does no...You're right of course, said Christian does not know this. However, I suppose that one might justify such knowledge by a sort of deductive proof. That is, God necessarily has the best possible (or at least feasible) plan for each individual's life granted their circumstances, that a plan that does not take consideration of God's desires cannot be said plan and must therefore be sub-optimal, and so that the Christian's previous plan is by definition inferior to their new God-given plan. <br /><br />Or something like that. What is annoying is that, even if we grant that the Christian knows such a thing to be true deductively, s/he will sometimes make statements along the lines of understanding the way in which their previous plan was destined for ruin. For example, a relative of mine tells me that she did not get into a certain school, which was kind of "a God thing," so as to humble her, where she would have been too proud had she obtained her degree. No, the reason that you didn't make it into that school because your marks were insufficient, and do not pretend to know otherwise.Reubenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01807367297410846530noreply@blogger.com