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Is Your Future Set or Open? Understanding Determinism and Personal Choice

This thought-provoking sermon explores the concept of determinism, examining its various forms—social, fatalist, biological, emotional, and theological. Through biblical references and modern insights, it challenges listeners, particularly clever Year Twelve students and Doctor Who fans, to consider whether their futures are predetermined or open to change. Key scripture passages emphasize the role of personal choice and God’s transformative power in shaping one's destiny. Join us in this enlightening discussion on fate, free will, and the choices that define our lives.

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Is Your Future Set or Open? Understanding Determinism and Personal Choice

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  1. Is Your Future Set Or Open?A Sermon For Clever Year Twelve Students, Doctor Who Fans, And Normal People Who Wonder!

  2. Is Your Future Set Or Open?

  3. Determinism:The idea that things or people are pre-determined and the future is set.

  4. Five Forms Of Destructive Determinism

  5. SOCIAL DETERMINISM: SET CLASS OR CASTE Galatians 3:28. There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

  6. FATALIST DETERMINISM: ASTROLOGY & TAROTDeuteronomy 18:10-11. Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead.

  7. BIOLOGICAL DETERMINISM: LIFE SET BY MY BODY“Have you ever felt trapped in circumstances, then discovered that the only trap was your own lack of vision, lack of courage, or failure to see that you had better options?” ― Nick Vujicic, Life Without LimitsRevelation 21:5. God said, “I make all things new!”

  8. EMOTIONAL DETERMINISM: DESPAIR“Those who are troubled with despair ought to be very careful not to be alone, for God created the fellowship of the church and commanded us to be family. As the Bible says, 'Woe to the one who is alone when he falls.’” - Martin Luther

  9. RELIGIOUS DETERMINISM: A SET ETERNAL FATEImagine the wrong actions that might arise from believing you are ‘set’ for heaven or hell and this cannot change???

  10. RELIGIOUS DETERMINISM: A SET ETERNAL FATEJohn Calvin became obsessed with one word…Romans 8:28-30. And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son…

  11. (A) GOD IS ALL POWERFUL(B) WE HAVE SOME CHOICES Calvin obssesed with this bit! Arminus obsessed with this bit!

  12. Which Of The Five Forms Of Dangerous Determinism Have Most Tempted You?1. Social Determinism - Set Class Or Caste2. Fatalist Determinism - Astrology & Tarot3. Biological Determinism – Life Set By My Body 4. Emotional Determinism - Despair5. Theological Determinism - A Set Eternal Fate

  13. Is Your Future Set Or Open?Acts 2:38. "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”

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