{"id":181,"date":"2007-01-15T11:04:26","date_gmt":"2007-01-15T16:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/2007\/01\/15\/jumping-to-conclusions\/"},"modified":"2007-01-16T01:19:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-16T06:19:00","slug":"jumping-to-conclusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/2007\/01\/15\/jumping-to-conclusions\/","title":{"rendered":"Jumping to conclusions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months back when I wrote the entry titled <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/2006\/08\/30\/the-eternal-now\/\">The eternal now<\/a><\/em>, I said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>The only way I can resolve this apparent paradox is to conclude that I am choosing to do God\u2019s will, even if I cannot understand how the things that I do are part of his plans.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I have to back up a step or two from here. While I maintain that this is a <em>reasonable<\/em> conclusion, I just cannot accept it as <em>true<\/em>. This is ultimately an extreme position; who am I, that I should think to limit the designs of the Almighty? My point is this: the paradox illustrates merely that I am finite, and that I don&#8217;t understand.<\/p>\n<p>Some additional thoughts that seem relevant:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gotquestions.org\/immutability-God.html\">What is the immutability of God?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gotquestions.org\/God-change-mind.html\">Does God change His mind?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Update (oops, forgot one):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/threehierarchies.blogspot.com\/2005\/12\/what-it-means-when-god-changes-his.html \">What It Means When God Changes His Mind<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months back when I wrote the entry titled The eternal now, I said: The only way I can resolve this apparent paradox is to conclude that I am choosing to do God\u2019s will, even if I cannot understand how the things that I do are part of his plans. I have to back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p706FH-2V","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}