Freedom of Choice

Just a thought on freedom of choice..

I’m not sure whether God knows what we’re gonna choose next ..and stuff like that. Ok yeah one thing’s for sure, we ol’ have freedom of choice. But when we say that God is all-knowing, I don’t think we mean that God has infinite knowledge over things that are within our control. Yes he knows what’s ahead, indeed, in the book of Revelations, he makes it obvious he knows everything. But “everything” cannot encompass what we do with our lives. His “knowledge of everything” is, I would think, simply truths. The decisions we make certainly cannot be classified under truths…

God knows what’s ahead of us in the sense God has a plan for our lives. He marks it out for us but he doesn’t know whether we’re gonna adhere to his plans..

I would think God only knows outcome of decisions made by people who have flagrantly turned from God and has had his/her heart hardened by God. Take Judas. God knew he was gonna betray Jesus because God hardened his heart, I believe. Ah mean, God allowed Judas to follow the Christ wherever he went and taste and see how good Jesus was, yet he had his heart on things other than God. I guess God’s decision to harden Judas’ heart here is well justified.

It would be meaningless if God wrote a script. He wrote a revelation, but not a script. If God wrote a script, of course he would write one in which every person on planet earth would somehow meet some Christian and become a Christian and then earth would become heaven. But he did not because he wanted us to write the script so that there would be such a thing as faith, and would not because that would have defeated the purpose of Jesus’ death – to make salvation, which is achieved by choice, possible.

If God wrote a script, then we would say that Adam and Eve were not responsible for their sin. God is holy, why would he ever include sin in his script.. Why would his script involve passing Adam and Eve to Satan and having to go through the hassle of sacrificing his son to give us a chance to come back.. He sacrificed his son man, it was a sacrifice, so it had to be painful. Why would God wanna inflict grief and sorrow onto himself?

So God wrote no script, I’d say. I think we write it.

..I’m not sure how convincing this is..Haha..but well..yeah..God is 3D and we are 2D..
..to continue this 2D 3D analogy, which LT gave when explaining why Christianity is such a mystery..
You have a 3D object, say, a cube. You shine light onto it, you get the shadow of a square. That's 2D. God is 3D, we are 2D, and Jesus, the "shadow" of God, coming into a 2D world, is 2D.
The mystery about Christianity is that we can see the 3D through the 2D. (There's some verse for this..if you see me you see the father..or somethin' like that..anyone knows?).
It's a mystery because it's illogical. It's impossible to perceive 3D from 2D. Because it's illogical, it's wonderful. So that's the wonder of it all...The End. Haha.