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Double Predestination

Double Predestination

Is the future bipolar?

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Steven Colborne
May 23, 2025
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I have been pondering the bipolar depiction of paradise and hell found in the Abrahamic religions a great deal in recent years. The idea causes me so much anguish. How could God, who I know to be so very gracious and loving, be angry enough with some of His vessels that He chooses to inflict unending suffering on them?

If we truly had free will, the idea…

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