Author Topic: Woman's perspective on being single in your 30's (Read 11612 times)

ServusSpiritusSancti · « **Reply #35 on:** February 11, 2012, 03:01:35 PM »

Quote from: Santo Subito

If He doesn't want you to be with someone, you won't be.

That isn't necessarily true. You seem to be forgetting that free will factors in as well.

LaramieHirsch · « **Reply #36 on:** February 11, 2012, 03:13:41 PM »

Quote from: SpiritusSanctus

Quote from: Santo Subito
If He doesn't want you to be with someone, you won't be.

That isn't necessarily true. You seem to be forgetting that free will factors in as well.

God has that special someone just for you, contained--temporarily--in a concrete waiting cell in another dimension, awaiting the day when they will finally be released to you, whether it was their original free will to be with you or not. Whether they had the desire to be with you in particular--or if they just wanted to be free from the concrete cubicle--is irrelevant, as they were meant to be with you. Again, their free will is irrelevant.

Arranged marriages kept life better than this. Society is anarchy, now.

Santo Subito · « **Reply #37 on:** February 11, 2012, 04:57:31 PM »

Of course people have free will. They can freely choose to pick the wrong person and be miserable. The key is that God knows who is best for you. If you keep close to Him, you'll find her, just as you have done. Obviously He meant her to find you as well. Our free will needs to submit to God's for us to be happy.

Jim · « **Reply #38 on:** February 11, 2012, 09:19:41 PM »

This is a good discussion. It can be for spouses, but also for religious orders and even particular convents or monasteries.

How much of it is our choice, and how much God's will?

Telesphorus · « **Reply #39 on:** February 11, 2012, 09:29:30 PM »

Quote from: Jim

This is a good discussion. It can be for spouses, but also for religious orders and even particular convents or monasteries.

How much of it is our choice, and how much God's will?

Obviously the decisions we make are our choice. But what happens is always God's Will. (incidentally, Vox Day is a Protestant heretic who doesn't believe in God's foreknowledge).

I suppose the principle to keep in mind, that can seem fatalistic sometimes, is that God will not let us have anything he doesn't allow us to have. And if he doesn't want us to have something, and we try to take it, there's a good chance we'll be separated from it.

That being said, there's no doubt God gives us opportunities and it is our responsibility to act on them. Recall the parable of the talents.