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The Paradox of Free Will November 20, 2024

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How can we possibly believe in free will since Christians believe in His Omniscience God knows everything we’ll do in advance, and we also believe He has a plan for our lives before we’re born?  So where is the free will?

God has perfect foreknowledge.  This means He knows the end from the beginning and thus He knows what everyone will do in the future and what any individual will do in any given situation. God has a complete plan for everyone’s life.  He knew how He wanted the universe to end before He created it and so He had a plan for every action needed to reach that end before the foundation of the world. 

If God wants a particular thing to happen, He knows who will choose to do it, when they will choose to do it, and under what circumstances they will choose to do it.  However, just because God already knows what choices we will make this in no way removes our free will. 

You see God is outside our space time continuum.  He is ever always in the now of eternity.   And in this bubble, we call reality we are the ones making the choices.

One example might be to think about our own foreknowledge of History.  We know how World War One ended.  If we could go back in time to July of 1914 the fact that we already know how the War will end would not force anyone to do anything.  Our knowing that the assassination of the heir to the throne of Austria would knock over the first domino ending only with the Treaty of Versailles wouldn’t stop Gavrilo Princip from shooting Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

God created us with free choice.  That’s why He told Adam and Eve not to eat the fruit of the trees in the center of the garden.  He told them not to do it, but He wouldn’t have said “Don’t do it,” if they couldn’t do it if they chose to.  Free choice means not only that we can choose to ignore God’s commands it also means we can freely choose to confess with our lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in our hearts that God has raised Him from the dead and so be saved.

It all hinges on free choice.  God is looking for children who choose to love and follow Him, not robots who have no choice.

God’s knowing what we will freely choose doesn’t mean that we are in any way forced to make that choice.  You can choose to believe this or not.

Season Three Episode Thirty-eight November 19, 2024

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In Episode Thirty-eight / Season Three of I Took a Right Turn: We play one of the world’s greatest revival songs: God is God.  Then we sing some old-time praise and worship songs: Hallelujah I Want to Sing All About It, I’m On My Way to Heaven, and I Have Decided to Follow Jesus.  Then we play one of our homegrown songs: Eye on the Prize.  For our Bible study this week we investigate the Old Testament Deuteronomy 30:19-20 and Joshua 24:15comparing the content of those verses with John8:36 in the New Testament.   In these passages we look at freedom of choice and the responsibility it brings.  Robert reads another essay from his series of books on Christian living, (FaithHope, and Love) reading Essay # 19 from the book, Love: “The Paradox of Free Will.”

The text of this essay will be posted the day after the release of this episode at www.itookarighturn.com and www.drrobertowens.com  All of Robert’s thirty-six books are available in paper back and kindle through Amazon.  We also invite everyone to visit our online art store, The Pair a Docs Shop where we offer our original paintings, prints and merchandise.

An excerpt from New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens November 18, 2024

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Atheists say God should come and reveal Himself to them then they would believe.  He did and they nailed Him to a cross.

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An excerpt from New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens November 17, 2024

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We never fail God’s tests because we’ll keep taking them over and over until we pass.

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An excerpt from New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens November 16, 2024

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When we live for the approval of others we are sailing towards a fall.

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An excerpt from New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens November 15, 2024

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Our faith in Christ is the one thing we can do in this life that doesn’t get in the way; it gets us on the way.

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An excerpt from New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens November 14, 2024

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It isn’t Jesus-and-angels, Jesus-and-politics, Jesus-and-Buddha, Jesus-and anything else.  It’s just Jesus.  And that’s the whole truth so help me God.

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The Fifth Law of Thermodynamics November 13, 2024

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Whether we call it “Flipping the switch,” or “Mashing the button,” when we do it, we expect the light to come on.  But if there’s no power all we end up with is a futile finger exercise.  Even a flashlight needs batteries.  No power, no light.  It’s the power of the sun’s thermonuclear inferno that provides the natural light illuminating life on earth.  

In the arcane world of physical cosmology and astronomy the debate about Dark Matter and Dark Energy consumes the attention of the best and the brightest even though this has about as much everyday walking around relevance as the ancient question, “How many angels can dance on the head of a pin.”  We’re told that which is invisible is measurable.  Some scientists go so far as to say that only 4% of the universe is physically observable, made up of matter.  The remaining 96% say is dark or invisible.

We’re told if these unknown and unknowable quantities aren’t factored into our calculations our accepted laws of physics, at the universal and the infinitesimal ends of the scale, don’t work.  They just appear to work within the observable bubble scientists call “The Space-Time Continuum” or as we call it out here in the work-a-day world, “Reality.”  

In other words, though these intricate Laws of Physics may look and are presented as rock solid, they aren’t.  It’s good to remember these and all Laws of Science are just theories constantly in search of either affirmation or repudiation.

What this tells us about the reality we observe is that science says it isn’t what it seems.  If the Dark Matter – Dark Energy theory is correct most of what is – is invisible to us.  If it isn’t true, we’re relying on science based upon physics which we know is incomplete, imprecise, and fundamentally wrong.  If the foundation is bad how can the structure built upon it be good?  If the basic assumptions of science are faulty, how can we trust it to reveal the universe around us?

Some people believe that science is based on fact and religion is based on faith.  When we learn that once quantum physics intersects with normal physics and once Dark Matter and Dark Energy collide with observable matter the claptrap of the modern scientific edifice is shown to be a house of cards built upon multiple leaps of faith disguised as logical assumptions.

If some want to embrace theories as dogma acting as the Apostate Apostles of Scientism preaching a religion of materialism that is their right.  However, I do find the way the “If I can’t feel it, see it, or hear it; it isn’t real,” crowd twist themselves into prattling pretzels over the problem of Dark Matter and Dark Energy extremely interesting.

The many atheists in the religion of materialism tell us Christians that believing in a world we can’t see all around us making that which we can see possible is drivel.   At the same time, they use their incantation of equations to prove that the world we see is made possible by that which we cannot see.  One of the most fascinating phenomena I’ve ever witnessed is the fact that these evangelists of physical evidence can’t see the hypocrisy of their cult-like adherence to their anti-deity dogma in the face of believing and espousing basically the same set of facts.

Just a few questions for the High Priests of Pragmatism:

If the universe has an end, then it must have had a beginning.  Every beginning has a cause.  What was the primary cause of the universe?

Or, if the universe is never ending doesn’t that in and of itself prove the existence of eternity?

If the universe is infinite yet expanding where would something that is infinite expand?  

If the universe is finite yet expanding, into what is it expanding?

Our solar system is powered by the sun.  Without the sun there would be no planets, no life.  If our sun was not there, there would be nothing here. 

I am speaking of physical power, physical light, and physical life.

If we turn our attention to the spiritual reality, God is the source of everything.  And Jesus Christ as the Son of God and His incarnation is the perfect physical expression of God.  Coming to sinful man Jesus was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, died a sacrificial death, rose from the dead, and ascended into Heaven where He is seated right now on the right hand of God the Father.  If we repent of our sins accept Jesus as our Savior, He will cleanse us of our sin nature and unite us with Himself.  We will become one with all other believers and one with God.  

Jesus is the power of God.  And without that power there is no light, and we walk in darkness.  For Jesus is the light of the world.  He is the light that shines through the darkness and the darkness can’t understand it.  We are descended from our father Adam, and we enter this world with a sin nature separated from God whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.  Unless and until we turn from the material world and embrace the spiritual, we cannot even understand what has just been said.  It will be gibberish, the ranting of a fool.  For the spirit cannot be understood with the natural mind.

Forsake the world of darkness and embrace the light.  Leave the City of Man and be translated to the City of God.  

The Laws of Thermodynamics are:

The Zeroth Law: If two systems are both in thermal equilibrium with a third system, then they are in thermal equilibrium with each other.

The First Law: The energy gained (or lost) by a system is equal to the energy lost (or gained) by its surroundings.

The Second Law: Natural processes tend to go only one way, toward less usable energy and more disorder.

The Third Law: A system’s entropy approaches a constant value as its temperature approaches absolute zero.

Even in the natural scientists say that the visible is dependent upon the invisible.  That is based on their conjectures.  Christians base their beliefs on the revelation of God.  Though He reveals Himself in all creation we cannot think our way to Him.  We cannot deduce Him or imagine Him apart from His revelation for He is eternal, infinite, omnipotent, and omnipresent.  These are all attributes beyond the grasp of our finite minds.  However, because He has chosen to reveal Himself to us in and through Christ, we know the material is dependent upon the spiritual.  

Scientists say there are three laws, but we all see four.  Which brings me to the 5th Law of Thermodynamics: No power no light.  Turn from the beggarly forces of the physical and embrace the infinite power of God and let the light of Christ blaze forth in your spirit.  Then let your life become a beacon as that light illuminates the world around you. 

No Jesus no peace.  Know Jesus know peace.  

Season Three Episode Thirty-seven November 12, 2024

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In Episode Thirty-seven / Season Three of I Took a Right Turn: We play one of the world’s greatest revival songs: God is God.  Then we share old worship song: There’s Power in the Blood, and one of our all-time favorites, Keep On Keeping On, and we also play another of our homegrown songs: Revival at Bethel.  For our Bible study this week we look at John 1:3-5 and Matt 11:25-26.   In this passage we see that Jesus is the light of world. Robert reads another essay from his series of books on Christian living, (FaithHope, and Love) reading Essay # 16 from the book, Love: “The Fifth Law of Thermodynamics

The text of this essay will be posted the day after the release of this episode at www.itookarighturn.com and www.drrobertowens.com  All of Robert’s thirty-six books are available in paper back and kindle through Amazon.  We also invite everyone to visit our online art store, The Pair a Docs Shop where we offer our original paintings, prints and merchandise.

An excerpt from New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens November 11, 2024

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Let’s strive to be “Jesus Only” Christians, not “Jesus and” Christians.  Because when we try to add to what He’s said or embellish what He’s done all we do is clutter things up and dilute the truth.  We can’t improve on God.

This is an excerpt from New Old Sayings Volume Two by Dr. Robert Owens. This and all his books are available from Amazon in paperback or kindle at