Where does our free will end and our preordained destiny begin? It seems they contradict each other. Or at the very least our freewill is limited.
Lots of things are predestined by God from the beginning and have or will take place, but that does not mean individuals before time began were personally predestined to do anything but could of the own free will done lots of things.
Salvation can be predestined from the beginning of time for all those that accept God’s charity, without impacting free will.
Predestination something that has not even happened for God is placing God in our time frame.
We can talk about our future being predestined by God, but as soon as we say our future is also future God’s future, we are limiting God by time. God does and will talk about things being in the future, but that is our future.
Christians talk about: “God being outside of time”, which is not beyond the thinking of the atheist or agnostic since:
For the last 100 years people have been trying to disprove “The Theory of Relativity” and yet nothing has disagreed with the theory and all experiments have supported relativity. If time is relative how relative would time be for God, who possible even created “time”?
If God is not outside of time and there is an infinite amount of time before man is created, then man has not been created, since an infinite amount of time has not finished? (This suggests God would be outside of time.)
There has also been hypothesized, with nothing being shown yet, that if time is “warped”, there could be possible “wormholes” or something like a wormhole going between two different times.
God could have his own sequencing of events, but God would not be limited by human time.
It is difficult to think about God being “outside of our time” with no before or after for God, but this subject requires us to think.
This would present an alternative to how God has perfect foreknowledge:
It should not be hard for you to imagine time being relative and warped, since that is what science has been showing, so one way God would “know” everything is by God at the end of man’s time sending back the whole history of man (which includes all the free will choices man made [it is historic at that point]) to Himself at the beginning of time, so the God at the beginning of man’s time knows all man’s free will choices throughout time as purely historical events and not even God can change history.
So how does God know for certainty what man will do in the future and still allow man to make free will choices; seems to be a dilemma, since the “future” is set by God knowing the future? The “future” is only “future” as far as man is concerned, since the future is set by being pure “history” as far as God is concerned. God is not forcing or setting man’s “future” free will choices, but it is man himself setting the man’s future, by the free will choices man “did make” in the future (which is history for God).
