Title: Fate and Freedom/Romans 8:35-39
Contents Romans 8:35-39
Who can separate us from the love of Christ? Tribulation, distress, persecution, hunger, nakedness, threat, or sword? As the Bible says, "All day long we are persecuted for the sake of the Lord. We are counted as sheep to be slaughtered." But in the face of all these we overcome more than because of him who loved us. I'm sure. Neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor present, nor future, nor power, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, can separate us from the love of God in our Lord Jesus Christ. There is not.
John 5:17
But Jesus said to them. "My father ever works, so I work."
Siphon 56:1 4
"God, have mercy on me. People persecute me. They attack me all day long. They oppress me all day long. My enemies who criticize me persecute me all day long. Even in days when fear engulfs me, I lean on you. I am not afraid of anything, what would a man in the flesh dare to do to me?
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Based on the scriptures given today, I will prophesy the word of God on the subject of fate and freedom. It was the first Sunday of the new year. Perhaps because the apocalyptic issue was emerging as a social problem, the morning program called Morning Madang on KBS 1TV dealt with a very unusual topic, 'What's the point?' On that day, Yonsei University, Korea University, and Ewha Womans University were conducting the main university entrance exam. Therefore, the tension of parents with children of the students was harmonized, and the atmosphere of the airing was heightened even more. Perhaps that's why the program dealing with the subject of human destiny, that is, the talk feast on divination, keynotes, compatibility, and mechanics, seemed to stand out much more than any other program on that day. The testimonies of the people who appeared on that day were very serious, and they were mainly those who testified of what they experienced through their own experiences with confidence, just as they would testify of faith in today's church.
So it makes sense to us that we have no such thing as freedom in any form. It means that even before the foundation of the world, Judas Iscariot had already been destined to sell his master. So in the end we don't even need to pray any kind of repentance for our salvation. However, these arguments are bound to fall into a nihilistic logic that turns everything into vain. However, there is a problem in saying that the Bible's true answer is that our human history is by no means fixed in the frame of such fatalistic ethicism.
This was the decisive difference between the biblical view of history and the fatalistic view of history of fortune-tellers, prophets, philosophers, and epidemiologists. In other words, the biblical history, the biblical time, the biblical eternity, is by no means a schematized thing, a magical or fatal thing that is no longer fixed in motion. It is by no means a fixed Being that is destined to be, but a Becoming that is in constant motion, constantly beating us, beating us, stitching and binding us, thus making us anew even now. That is, it is not a fatalistic fatalism, but a freedom of a dynamic nature that contains infinite new possibilities. God is still at work. The fact that there is no such thing as fate is that the God of infinite freedom is still working today.