Tuesday, December 4, 2018

Foreknowledge? Or Calling the Ball?

Is prophesy possible because God knows the future?  Or is God playing an incredibly complex game of pool, and every once in a while, just to show off, he calls out 'Eight ball, corner pocket'?

I lean towards the latter.  I'm not totally convinced, but I lean.

See, it seems to me that God, when He created the universe, had to kinda put Himself aside in some way.  He carved out this little bit of reality that wasn't completely filled by Himself, and that's where our universe sits.  Because, in order for us to have free will, we had to be in a space that wasn't all Godded up, so to speak.  We had to have room to breathe without breathing in God.  Otherwise, we'd breathe in God and God would be all that would come out, and that wouldn't be free will.

And part of that formulation was time, as we know it.  So while God is, for the most part, outside of time, I posit that the part of God that is in our universe, is not outside of time.

It would be very cool and awesome and all that if God knew the future by simply looking ahead and seeing how things turn out.  But how much cooler is it if He can't see the future?  A pool player doesn't really 'know' where the eight ball is going to go.  But he is confident in his ability to make the ball go where he wants it to go.  And I suspect that God, even before the break, called not just one shot, but all of the shots.  And now He is showing his mastery by tapping the cue ball in such a way that the rest of the balls ... dance.

Anyway, that's my theory.  Not that God can't see the future, but that He has chosen to limit Himself in this way for our benefit, but it doesn't restrict His ability to shape the universe in whatever way He wants.  Can't really prove it either way.  But that's how I think of my God - He calls the shots, then makes them happen.

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