There's a common idea that creeps into both atheist arguments as well as many Christians. "Who created God? How can He know the future if we still have free will? How can we be the elect if God wants all to come into knowing Him?" On and on the arguments go. And they all miss a single point. God does not adhere to the universe as we do. When you create something, you are not stuck within it. It's like Tolkien having to live as a man from Middle Earth or George Lucas being stuck within the world of Star Wars. It's foolishness.
So is it with God. He's not bound by the universe. The "dimensions." Or even time, itself.
God knowing the future, doesn't take away our free will. No more than reading the end of the book, meaning you're the one who decided what the characters chose. I know the line "Luke, I am your father." But it wasn't me who decided that.
God knows what we choose, not because we are simply acting out His book, but rather because He has already seen our choices. He created time and is not bound by it. He is not surprised, because He is wise.
That's not to say He is not completely sovereign. It's not that He cannot force us into decision, but rather He chooses not to. He allows us our freedom in that regard.
There are so many concepts in the Bible, that are beyond human understanding. What is eternity? An existence without time. Perfection, blamelessness, holiness, these things we have ideas of, but can we truly know them? Can we understand the ways of God and His wisdom? No, no we cannot. And while our mind can never fully understand God, we can use what we do know and not limited God with what we don't.
Arguments that insist that God must exist in the same manner that we do, are foolishness. And just as science cannot explain so much of what they study, so can we rest assure that not understanding God, completely, doesn't disprove Him in any sort of way.
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