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The Freewill Paradox
As I said in my earlier in another post I think God, being eternal, sets outside of time and space. He is the Alpha and Omega. I believe that God looks at creation as a whole start to finish. From His vantage point all things have played out and yet each thing in His creation exits and “lives” in it’s own time and space. Since God can see from this vantage point He knows what I’m going to do (as in pre-destination) without controlling what I’m going to do (so I have free will)
Grasping this concept shines new light on these concepts:
Christ was slain from the foundation of the world
God “knew” Jeremiah before he was formed
Not to mention Ezekiel’s “Wheel within a wheel”
I believe that this can also help us to understand the resurrection of the dead. Since God is not bound by time and space he can reach into his creation at any point. Meaning, God can reach into his creation a thousand years ago and raise up a person. If my understanding is true God could raise up all mankind from all points of time in history at the same moment.
I believe that God can be moved upon through prayer and intercession to reach into His creation and change things according to His desire to do so. In the same sense that a Painter can go back and add to or change his composition.
I do not think that these beliefs violate the word and that they in some ways help me to understand it. But, I realize these beliefs in these matters are not scripture.
It occurs to me that if this is true it bridges the gap between traditional Calvinism and the freewill argument. As in a sense both are true
I am sincerely interested in what others might thing as I realize this is pretty deep stuff.
John O.
As I said in my earlier in another post I think God, being eternal, sets outside of time and space. He is the Alpha and Omega. I believe that God looks at creation as a whole start to finish. From His vantage point all things have played out and yet each thing in His creation exits and “lives” in it’s own time and space. Since God can see from this vantage point He knows what I’m going to do (as in pre-destination) without controlling what I’m going to do (so I have free will)
Grasping this concept shines new light on these concepts:
Christ was slain from the foundation of the world
God “knew” Jeremiah before he was formed
Not to mention Ezekiel’s “Wheel within a wheel”
I believe that this can also help us to understand the resurrection of the dead. Since God is not bound by time and space he can reach into his creation at any point. Meaning, God can reach into his creation a thousand years ago and raise up a person. If my understanding is true God could raise up all mankind from all points of time in history at the same moment.
I believe that God can be moved upon through prayer and intercession to reach into His creation and change things according to His desire to do so. In the same sense that a Painter can go back and add to or change his composition.
I do not think that these beliefs violate the word and that they in some ways help me to understand it. But, I realize these beliefs in these matters are not scripture.
It occurs to me that if this is true it bridges the gap between traditional Calvinism and the freewill argument. As in a sense both are true
I am sincerely interested in what others might thing as I realize this is pretty deep stuff.
John O.