Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't believe in predestination, even though I was raised a Presbyterian.
I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.
Order is manifestly maintained in the universe... governed by the sovereign will of God.
Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
To receive all of the promised blessings, we must accept the gospel in faith and in full. However, this certain faith does not usually come all at once. We learn spiritually line upon line and precept upon precept.
Just as Divinity descends in a certain manner, to the extent that one communicates with Nature, so one ascends to Divinity through Nature, just as by means of a life resplendent in natural things one rises to the life that presides over them.
Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.