{"id":2657,"date":"2023-11-29T18:21:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T22:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/?p=2657"},"modified":"2023-12-22T17:29:42","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T21:29:42","slug":"shakespeare-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/shakespeare-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Providence and Predestination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While all by God is noticed and foreseen,<br \/>\nWe humans are created with free will;<br \/>\nAnd thus, though helped, must choose between<br \/>\nEvil and good; to live in peace or kill.<br \/>\nSo <em>Providence<\/em> is not, as some believe,<br \/>\nAnother word for narrow <em>predestination<\/em>,<br \/>\nWhich, being deterministic, doesn&#8217;t leave<br \/>\nUs scope, concerning Blessing or Damnation.<br \/>\nIndeed, even philosophers misuse<br \/>\nThe term <em>Providence<\/em>: Hamlet to his friend<br \/>\nEmploys it to state that, ere our life we lose,<br \/>\nNot only has God foreseen but fixed our end.<br \/>\n<span style=\"visibility: hidden;\">++<\/span>In fact he means, facing his own recall,<br \/>\n<span style=\"visibility: hidden;\">++<\/span>There&#8217;s <em>predestination<\/em> in a sparrow&#8217;s fall.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 180px;\">Ramat Gan<br \/>\n27 November 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While all by God is noticed and foreseen, We humans are created with free will; And thus, though helped, must choose between Evil and good; to live in peace or kill. So Providence is not, as some believe, Another word for narrow predestination, Which, being deterministic, doesn&#8217;t leave Us scope, concerning Blessing or Damnation. Indeed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,17,16,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2657"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2671,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions\/2671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelpeach.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}