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“St John of the Cross says that in the passive purifications of the soul, in which, as a rule, the mystery of predestination appears in all its transcendent obscurity, the soul that has gone through this ordeal may feel the necessity of rising above all human conceptions with their apparent clarity, and thus abandon itself completely to God…”
— Aug 16, 2025 10:35AM
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As Richard Feynman apparently stated about QM, “If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don’t understand quantum mechanics,” the same may well be true for predestination.
Science struggles to synthesize paradoxical truths (quantum superposition, light acting as a wave and particle simultaneously), just as theologians do with predestination (God elects us to salvation, yet we have free will”.
— Sep 01, 2025 01:22PM
Science struggles to synthesize paradoxical truths (quantum superposition, light acting as a wave and particle simultaneously), just as theologians do with predestination (God elects us to salvation, yet we have free will”.
