Predestination; are fates set in some cases?
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Can you explain how, for the entirety of someone's divine beginningless and endless existence, having had only one plan for every possible universe, and having known everything that will ever happen in all time everywhere necause they made every detail happen according to that single plan, would not be boring as hell?
An even better understanding, IMHO, would be that time is merely a function of change, and if the Father and Son and Holy Spirit have conversations, they also experience time as statements and responses preceed and follow one another. Also that the future does not exist to be known, but specific plans and intentions one might hve for the future do exist. And that an omniscient God knows all that exists and has existed to be known, including His specific plans. And an omnipotent God is able to make any specific plans He has happen. And an omnipotent, omniscient God is able to mitigate the effects of His creatures decisions in order to keep His specific plans viable, but is able to give creatures the ability to make choices that are not just influenced by the pressure ol precedent past causes that have real existence, but are also influenced by the attraction of perceived future consequences that do not have real existence. Decisions influenced by perceptions of future consequences that do not yet have real existence cannot be completely predetermined. Therefore we have free will (free desires) and freedom to choose how to act regarding those desires, even if our options for action are limited.
God predestines because He foreknows our lives before we live them.. We have the freedom to accept the will of God or to resist the moving of the Holy Spirit and we do decide to do one or the other.. But God foreknows what we will do and from that foreknowledge He can predestines those who will be transformed into the image of Jesus at the resurrection..
