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God's Knowledge and Future Events?

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The tension between human free will and God’s knowledge of the future threatens both. It’s called God’s ‘foreknowledge’—God knowing now what will happen...

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Can Free Will Survive God’s Foreknowledge?

Episode 12

Season 14

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Predestination is ultimate destiny, fate. It is the claim by some religions that a Supreme Being, whether a personal God or a cosmic force, has determined for individual...

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What is Predestination?

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Does God know all future events? Only if the future is in some real sense already determined. God, to be God, must know every true proposition, including all about the...

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Has God Settled the Future?

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God needs perfect knowledge in order to be God, which includes knowing now exactly how future events will unfold. Does this mean that God knows everything about what is to...

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How Could God Know the Future?

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What would it mean for God to know the future? Know the general patterns of history and lives? Or know every last, minute fact about every possible thing that happens? Next,...

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Does God Know the Future?

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For God not to know the future in every last detail threatens traditional theologies. There’d be worry over God’s providence, God’s promises. If the future...

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Perhaps Even God Doesn't Know the Future?

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Judgment (Heaven, Hell)?

Every religion thunders its day of reckoning. To examine God’s judgment is to probe God’s character and perhaps assess God’s existence. If God does not...

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What is God's Judgment?

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How does God’s judgment work? Almost every culture calls for a judgment at the end of our lives. Whether given by God at a fixed moment, or set by recurring process in...

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An Ultimate Judgment?

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What kind of God would create Hell? Does the nature of Hell offer insight into what that kind of God would be like? Does the truth of Christianity, Judaism, Islam depend on...

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Do Heaven and Hell Really Exist?

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A judgment sounds foreboding. Most religions that believe in God, or in life beyond the physical, also believe in some kind of final judgment. Whether the active decision of...

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Is there a Judgment?

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What happens in God’s judgment? If God really exists, and the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam are in any way true, what are the scriptural...

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What would God's Judgment be Like?

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What kind of God would create hell? Does the truth of Christianity, Judaism and Islam depend on the reality of Hell? Does the nature of Hell offer Insight into what that God...

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Does Hell Reveal God?

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Season 11

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Resurrection?

Judaism, Christianity and Islam teach the ‘resurrection of the body’, the person brought back to life. But isn’t a ‘body’ out of place in a nonphysical hereafter?...

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Why a Body in a Resurrection?

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Season 14

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Judaism, Christianity and Islam each proclaim a resurrection of the dead, a bodily reconstruction of all people from all time in the unknown future for ultimate judgment. But...

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Why a Body in a Resurrection?

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The resurrection of the dead would be a stunning event. It’s a core tenet of Judaism, Christianity, Islam: every person who ever lived brought back to life in...

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What's a Resurrection Like?

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Judaism, Christianity and Islam each proclaim a resurrection of the dead, a bodily reconstruction of all people from all time. How would it work? Does it make sense?

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What’s in a Resurrection?

Episode 11

Season 11

26:46

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Eschatology (End Times)?

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Will God transform the cosmos? God has promised to give God’s own salvation or eternal life to human beings. In the context of the resurrection of the dead, could God...

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Will God "Save" the Cosmos?

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Many religions envision a radical transformation of reality. The supernatural intervention of God or God-like forces changes everything. What, conceivably, could this new...

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All Things New?

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In every generation, some religious believers imagine their time to be the end time. Why is this so? What makes the end time so compelling, even intoxicating? What...

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Is This the End Time?

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‘A new heaven and a new earth’ is the grand vision of the Bible. The Judeo-Christian scriptures tell of a future time when all things shall be made new. What...

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A New Heaven & A New Earth?

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In every generation, some religious believers imagined their time to be the end time. Why is this so? Is our generation different? What, in a religious nutshell, is the End...

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Is This the End Time?

Episode 11

Season 03

26:46

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Eternal Life?

Almost all religions offer some kind of life or awareness after physical death. Speculations of what such life after death might be like—the form it might take, how we...

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Imagining Eternal Life

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How to imagine the experience of eternal life? Would we sense ourselves? How would we feel? Whom would we know? What would we do? What would God do? Living forever seems so...

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Eternal Life is Like What?

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Eternity is forever. But what would this mean, especially because eternal life in one form or another is the ultimate promise of almost every religion? Is there instant...

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What is Eternity?

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I’d like to live forever. Wouldn’t you? But what would “living forever” mean? Almost every religion offers life after death. What would immortality...

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Immortality and Eternal Life

Episode 13

Season 08

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The Judeo-Christian scriptures tell of “a new heaven and a new earth,” when all shall be made new. What could this mean? Could this ever make sense? Believers...

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A New Heaven & A New Earth?

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Season 06

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Almost all religions promise eternal life. In one form or another, the message goes forth that death is not final. But each religion paints its own portrait of the hereafter:...

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Eternal Life is Like What?

Episode 12

Season 03

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Search for Meaning

To search for meaning, God or something like God is often involved. But this need not be so. How can meaning be found, or purpose realized, without invoking supernatural...

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Search for Meaning (Part 2)

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To search for meaning, God or something like God is often involved. But this need not be so. How can meaning be found, or purpose realized, without invoking supernatural...

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Search for Meaning (Part 1)

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Ultimate Destinies

Explore themes of Ultimate Destinies:

God's Knowledge and Future Events?

Can Free Will Survive God’s Foreknowledge?

What is Predestination?

Has God Settled the Future?

How Could God Know the Future?

Does God Know the Future?

Perhaps Even God Doesn't Know the Future?

Judgment (Heaven, Hell)?

What is God's Judgment?

An Ultimate Judgment?

Do Heaven and Hell Really Exist?

Is there a Judgment?

What would God's Judgment be Like?

Does Hell Reveal God?

Resurrection?

Why a Body in a Resurrection?

Why a Body in a Resurrection?

What's a Resurrection Like?

What’s in a Resurrection?

Eschatology (End Times)?

Will God "Save" the Cosmos?

All Things New?

Is This the End Time?

A New Heaven & A New Earth?

Is This the End Time?

Eternal Life?

Imagining Eternal Life

Eternal Life is Like What?

What is Eternity?

Immortality and Eternal Life

A New Heaven & A New Earth?

Eternal Life is Like What?

Search for Meaning

Search for Meaning (Part 2)

Search for Meaning (Part 1)