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I was out walking today, thinking about the sacrifice of Christ. Then this question arose, how Jesus could have born all sins that hadn't even been committed yet. How do you reason around this?
God knows with pinpoint precision what everyone is going to do in the future. Seeing God knows this, He is able to forgive these future sins on a provisional basis (i.e. So as to provide a way of escape) in order for man to have the capacity to receive the free will offer of the gift of eternal life and so that he may remain faithful to that gift. The gift is Jesus Christ (See: John 3:16). In other words, I don't believe God needs for the sin to exist in real time in order to forgive it because God knows it will happen. For His own Word shows that God is able to predict the future with 100% accuracy. But how can God forgive sin that has not happened in real time?
Let me give you some examples:
It would be like Rick knowing his father who is a drunk and who is abusive may beat him or say hurtful words towards him. Rick can choose ahead of time in that he forgives his father knowing that most likely what his father will do based on his past several years of behavior up until that point. Rick can choose to forgive his father ahead of time before the sin actually happens.
Or it could be like a prison guard telling James that he is going to be tortured in the next 4 hours. He knows they plan to torture him and he knows there is no way to escape this. It is a future sin. James can choose to forgive their future sin or not. It is up to James to decide. But in God's case, all sin that God sees us commit beforehand has been declared as forgiven on a Provisional basis. In other words, if humans can forgive future sins, then so can God. So I don't see an issue or problem.
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