If God is real then why da fate has to be like this like he can make the fate to be good but we all know how bad this world and some ppl here are... Does anyone know why?
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FOREWORD
The National Curriculum Framework (NCF), 2005 recommends that children’s
life at school must be linked to their life outside the school. This principle marks
a departure from the legacy of bookish learning which continues to shape our
system and causes a gap between the school, home and community. The syllabi
and textbooks developed on the basis of NCF signify an attempt to implement
this basic idea. They also attempt to discourage rote learning and the maintenance
of sharp boundaries between different subject areas. We hope these measures
will take us significantly further in the direction of a child-centred system of
education outlined in the National Policy on Education (1986).
The success of this effort depends on the steps that school principals and
teachers will take to encourage children to reflect on their own learning and to
pursue imaginative activities and questions. We must recognise that, given space,
time and freedom, children generate new knowledge by engaging with the
information passed on to them by adults. Treating the prescribed textbook as
the sole basis of examination is one of the key reasons why other resources and
sites of learning are ignored. Inculcating creativity and initiative is possible if we
perceive and treat children as participants in learning, not as receivers of a fixed
body of knowledge.
These aims imply considerable change in school routines and mode of
functioning. Flexibility in the daily time-table is as necessary as rigour in
implementing the annual calender so that the required number of teaching days
are actually devoted to teaching. The methods used for teaching and evaluation
will also determine how effective this textbook proves for making children’s life at
school a happy experience, rather than a source of stress or boredom. Syllabus
designers have tried to address the problem of curricular burden by restructuring
and reorienting knowledge at different stages with greater consideration for child
psychology and the time available for teaching. The textbook attempts to enhance
this endeavour by giving higher priority and space to opportunities for
contemplation and wondering, discussion in small groups, and activities requiring
hands-on experience.
The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT)
appreciates the hard work done by the textbook development committee
responsible for this book. We wish to thank the Chairperson of the advisory group
in science and mathematics, Professor J.V. Narlikar and the Chief Advisor for
this book, Professor B. L. Khandelwal for guiding the work of this committee
God knows the future of what the free will creatures choose. Free will does not stop becoming free because God knows what will happen. For example, I know that my child will choose to eat chocolate cake over a bowl full of stinking dead mice. If I were to set them both before my child, it is safe to say she will not eat the dead mice. Knowing this is not taking away the freedom of my child since she is freely choosing one over the other. Likewise, for God to know what a person will choose does not mean that the person has no freedom to make the choice. It simply means that God knows what the person will choose. This is necessarily so since God knows all things (1 John 3:20). Besides, if a person were to choose A instead of C, then that is what God would have known would happen.
Furthermore, if God knows all things and knows what we are going to choose, then by definition, we are still making the choice; after all, the argument says that God knows what “we are going to choose.” If we are going to “choose something,” then we really are making the choice – otherwise, it wouldn’t be logical to assert that God knows what we are going to choose. Choice implies the ability to decide between different options. Again, by definition if God knows what we are going to choose, then He knows what we are going to choose between options… otherwise, we are not choosing anything, and the statement is illogical.
But, the question is why does he know? Does he know because he is a good guesser, or because he can see the future, or is it because he ordains all things after the counsel of His will (Eph. 1:11)? It is the latter. God knows all things because he is the one who chose to bring the universe into existence with all that would occur. This means that it is God’s will to allow sin to operate in the world. But, he does not sit idly by and watch things happen. He knew what would happen with the created world because he is the one who put everything in place; otherwise, nothing would’ve happened. This can be enigmatic, but it is true. God is the sovereign and all things in the universe exist within the direct will and/or permissive will of God.
Back to the bowl of dead mice. The father, however, is not omniscient where God is. But does this difference negate the analogy? Not at all. Knowing what a person will do still does not force them or limit them to doing what is known. Some people assert that if God knows what we are going to do, then we don’t have “real” freedom. They try to state logically that God’s foreknowledge of an event somehow limits the event and the choice of the individual. The complaint implies that there is an action by God upon a person that negates His freedom to choose. It would be up to the complainer to establish some logical connection between what God knows will happen and the mind of the one who chooses so that the mind of the person making the choice no longer is making a choice. It seems that the critics are saying that the choice-maker is affected by God’s knowledge to such an extent that his freedom is lost. If that is the case, then can they prove this logically? If not, then how can they maintain their position?
God’s knowing what we will choose is a function of His omnipresence since He is in all places all the time. If He were not, He would not know what choices we were freely going to make. To deny that God is all-knowing, even of the choices we make, is to deny His omnipresence and reduce God’s nature to something more like ourselves, which would be a mistake.
Nevertheless, some people try and claim that God does not know what we will freely choose. But, this cannot be since it would violate the biblical teaching that God knows all things.
The following is taken from an email, which is in brown, complaining that God’s foreknowledge means we have no free will. The person wrote six points. I reproduced them and have inserted comments, in green below the points.
God knows every decision that I am going to make tomorrow.
Correct.
For the sake of simplicity, let’s assume that I am going to make only one decision tomorrow. My decision will be whether or not to go to my aerobics class at the gym.
A decision is a choice about something that you want to do or believe. It is drawing a conclusion while considering the options. Your statement that you are going to make the decision means that you admit that you are the one making the choice. By definition then, you are freely choosing to do something. Therefore, to later say that you have no choice in what you are doing is a contradiction of your statement here.
God knows what decision I will make. He has it written on his “list.”
There is no “list” that God has anywhere of the things that anyone is going to do. The knowledge of God is not a list. It is simply necessarily complete since He knows all things. This is because God’s nature requires that He knows all things since He is everywhere all the time: the past, present, and future.