If God wanted robots, He could answer every question, and reveal Himself in such Power that there would be no room for doubt at all.
He wanted willing lovers, so like Cupid in the myth, He hides His Irresitable self to give us space for choice.
Now, some of my collegues find this contradictory to the Scriptures. They see that, from God's perspective, all is predestined, and man really has no choice.
Maybe it's having been aquainted with Einteinian relativity before the Gospel, but for me there is no contradiction at all. From God's Absolute perspective, there is no choice, all that was and ever will be is compelled by Him. But that does not contradict that we, from our limited time-constrained perspective, really do make choices. It is IMPOSSIBLE to see from the perspective of a photon. For such any light-speed object, time stops, and we can not comprehend what that means. It is a mathematical absraction we can calculate with, but not a reality we can conceive. This is a photon, and I am sure far more than this is meant by "God is Light."
You can NOT think as God thinks.
Some questions are meaningless, just as asking what is the set of all sets, or the largest number.
Logic is a linear set of rules which apply just fine to much of daily experience. Logic does not apply all that well in certain realms of nature, such as the very small and the very fast. Why would you think that if human logic can not properly account for nature, it can account for God? Mathematics, which so far has applied well to nature, has proven that mathematics can NOT account for all reality (see Godell's incompleteness theorems). Thus, all human systems of thought must necessarily be either incomplete or inaplicable.
Why then do you marvel that there are some things outside of human comprehension, if it has been mathematically proven this must be so, even about the natural?
IF you could understand all of God, you would BE God. That is the message of Satan at Eden.
JR
