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Saturday, July 14, 2012

The All Knowing God

If we consider God as described in the Bible as all knowing, and eternal then my conceptual words would describe him as “outside of Time” as we know it.  Humans think of time as linear.  The past is behind us and the future is unknown ahead of us.  God would then have to think of time as sort of an object or circle in front of him where the past and the present and the future are all visible to him at once.  It must be very frustrating to God to want us all to come to him as his children with the full knowledge that the ones he is looking at throughout time did not come to him (in our future and our past.)  God has a plan for our lives that he wants us to live, knowing that we didn’t.  His will and his plan and his foreknowledge essentially become a reading of the script that we already lived out in our future that he can see.  In a way it sort of fits with the old “determinists” like Calvin in the sense that our future is already programmed, though not by God as Calvin would have put it…rather by ourselves.

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