I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Ecclesiastes 9:11
Time and Chance
Of the four major theologies two deny time and chance and the third employs it in everything. The fact that the Bible states that time and chance happens to all men eliminates Calvinistic predestination where all is predetermined before the foundation of the world. The fact that God does predetermine somethings eliminated the third where the the history of the world unfolds without God’s intervention.
The judgments of God, man’s free will desires, as well as time and chance all work together in God’s plan.
… taking into account the astonishing number of possibilities of parents meeting, grandparents meeting before them, and so on going back generations, and then adding the vast number of sperm and ova in possible combinations over decades of the marital act in all those generations, the odds of me existing just as I do are about 1 in 102,685,000.
The Probability of You Existing at All Is Unbelievably Low
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