Because I saw that he was online last night but didn't pay us another visit, I took the liberty of transferring a couple of his quotes over here from the other thread:
So how can you all tell me with certainty that God will always love me if you have just told me he has the free will to opt out at any time?
He doesn't choose to love. It has forever been a part of him and his nature. He is an eternal unchanging being remember? So you are 100% incorrect when you say he has the choice to opt out of loving us.
Okay, Alex. God created the universe and everything in it. That includes space, itself, and that includes the entire timeline. Because God had to exist before the universe in order to create it, and because an infinite God cannot be contained by a finite universe, we are not being unreasonable in concluding that God is not boxed-in by this universe, and that includes our timeline, as well. We hold that God is omniscient. He knows what you are and what you ultimately will become. We hold that God is eternal. He's been around long enough to have made up his mind very firmly about you. We hold that God is omnipotent. You with your finite means are not capable of circumventing his plans. We hold that God is a person. He is not some universal force that blindly holds all people in his love, equally and unreasonably.
Put this all together, and you have a picture that differs somewhat from what you might be used to from other Christians. Because God knows exactly what the end result will be, even before you ever existed, there's really no reason to expect him to change from loving you absolutely, today, and switch to the other extreme and hate your guts tomorrow, if you should die in your sleep, tonight. It doesn't work like that. One other perspective that other Christians are presenting you with, that we don't hold, is the idea that God waits in the sidelines, anxiously chewing his nails, waiting to see what you will choose. We don't hold that view. We believe in destiny. We know that God is omnipotent, that nothing is outside of his power, and we know that he is omniscient, and no one can outwit him. Put those two together, and there's a certain determinism to the matter. He's not waiting to see what you will do. You won't even come to faith in him unless he ordains it.
