Its very exciting to talk to my coworker about anything related to my faith. So today he asks me if I believe in fate. I knew exactly what I wanted to say. Well first I said I believe in a plan. Cool. But by the way thats God's plan because he's sovereign. Sovereign? but what about free will? Well free will is just the ability to make a decision when given a choice, not to ultimately control your future and circumstances, those are beyond control, at least human control. So is it not possible that a timeless, omniscient, omnipotent God could not only shape circumstances but based on his omniscient knowledge of your heart and its desires would it not be likely that he knows what your choice will be. For example, I know that my dad would much rather go fishing than go snowboarding and he will obviously make that choice because I know him that well. Well God knows me even better than that, so He knows what I will do, but knowing it does not affect my ability to make that choice. And not being in control of my circumstances, an omnipotent God could take control and therefore guide my decision. Though I believe if He wanted to He could just make me do something too.
So after even more of that ^^^^^ my coworker agreed. He admitted to have never thought about God like that. But it ends up that argument doesn't work if you don't believe in an omniscient, timeless, omnipotent God. Dang it, an engineers mind doesn't like to accept what can't be proven
A quote from one of my professors "You have a feeling? Theres no feeling in engineering. Theres not even an 'f' in engineering. Except maybe in your grade"
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