Are people born with certain abilities like painting and learning languages?
Either the answer is: ‘‘Yes they are born with them’’ or ‘‘NO, they develop them as they live their lives’’, we all can agree that those abilities come from God, since God created everyone and everything, even the circumstances to develop those abilities in the courses of our lives!
So I agree that: ‘‘Good and evil comes from God. EVERYTHING WAS PLANNED AND MAPPED OUT BEFORE THE CREATION OF ANYTHING. As the Potter so decided.’’ (Directly, all good only comes from God himself).
So why should we even bother with this question? Is it even important?
I believe the answer could be able to help us understand a little bit more how does God predetermines things.
I have been told since I was a kid that I was born with the ability of drawing, and I used to take this comments for granted. Now that I can use my reasoning skills a little better, I am able to look back and remember about all the small and important turning points, influences, levels of focus while practicing and information that made me developed this ability. I don't feel proud about it (In comparison from other more talented people, my ability is very poor), also I had no free-choice about it, I was predestined for it since the beginning of the ages.
So here is where my main point regarding this question is focus. I am not talking about genetics or if people supposedly have hidden abilities that never where able to develop and there for we will never even know if they where there in the first place. My focus and what I am talking about is that every little moment since we were born, every emotion, every thought, every action and small or big circumstance, is what make us develop the capacity to learn faster certain abilities and these abilities had been caused already since the beginning of the world.
"Through faith we understand that the worlds [ages] were framed [prepared] by the Word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear [are visible]" (Heb. 11:3).
We are talking about invisible things, some people say that God supernaturally supply people with this invisible abilities when they are born, but I believe that this abilities where planned by God for us to have them since long time before we where even born, every action we make is the consequence of a great and long history of causes and consequences, it is way beyond our power and capacity to assimilate it, and THESE IS WHY EVERYTHING WE DO COULD NOT BE OTHERWISE, EVERYTHING HAPPEN IS AS IT’S SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN AND GOD IS NOT SURPRISED AT ALL ABOUT THE FUTURE. If we are going to believe about Predestination, we have to buy the whole package.
"In Whom [GOD] also we have obtained [‘obtained’ not ‘earned’] an inheritance, being PREDESTINATED [our ‘destiny’ was ‘pre’ arranged by God, not us] according to the PURPOSE OF HIM [not the free will, OF US!] Who WORKS ALL THINGS [EVERYthing] AFTER THE COUNSEL OF HIS OWN WILL [not OUR OWN WILL]" (Eph. 1:11).
So we live in a world governed by laws, it is a world of structures and a strange order; it is a beautiful work in process. Here is a quote from the paper ‘the myth of free will part A’’ that I believe influence me to come into this conclusions. If all power and ability comes from above and we all here in the forum can agree with it, for me these is something that worth’s our today online meeting.
THE SOURCE OF ALL POWER
What do we learn from these verses? Are we to believe that for this particular event (the Crucifixion of our Lord), God supernaturally supplied Pilate with the power to perform his dirty work? Is that what we learn?
Pilate already KNEW that he possessed power—he told Jesus he possessed this power. He possessed it for some time, that’s how Pilate was sure that this power was available to him whenever he needed it. But from where did Jesus say Pilate’s power came from? "…from ABOVE." It ALWAYS COMES FROM ABOVE.
So, what about the ruler before Pilate? Did he have power? Where did that power come from? "…from ABOVE." And what about the neighboring cities, states, powers, countries and kingdoms? Where did THEIR power come from? "…from ABOVE." Where has all the power of every city, state, and nation, farm, company, household, and individual who has ever lived, come from? "…from ABOVE.
Where does all power in heaven and earth come from? "…from ABOVE." Therefore, man is subject to the power that enables him to do things, and as we have already seen, man has no power to do anything except what God has already determined that he WILL DO, and MUST DO.
Samson, thanks for your contribution. I have seen documentaries of people with exceptional abilities, and it is hard to believe that only the short life time of them had been enough to be able to develop those exceptional abilities. But God is the potter, and he knows and knew exactly how much pressure and information and exactly what circumstances does that person needed to develop the exceptional abilities.
These are unusual thoughts, but I am glad we can come here to share them, and try to go as deep as we can.