Originally Posted by
alanmolstad
Libby,,,the beers kicking in, so watch and wonder as the pearls of wisdom flow forth from my hands...
Another way to look at this question?......
Libby, we are human, we experience one moment after another.
so we dont know the future at all.....the page of the future is always hidden....
thats how we look at life....like its a book that we are reading.
The p***ing of time is like the turning of a page of the book.
BUT, thats not how God looks at the creation.
how does God look at creation?
I dont know for sure.
But in a small way, its kinda like how we look at a painting.
a painting has no start, no finish, no half-way point...
a painting is all it is, all at once.
So how does this relate to human free will and God's sovereignty?
Its important to it..
We try to understand God as if he was trapped in the book of time, where one thing follows another and we are not sure how it ends.
But God looks at the beginning and the ending and the middle and all points in between with the same clarity.
So while we struggle with our freewill, God just smiles...
Yes, we have free will and can do whatever we want...but only because in the totally finished painting of creation that God is looking at, we were painted with such by the Master.