Hmm…. If God looks down the tunnel of time to determine His plan, not only is God dependent on man’s future choice, he is learning and then conforms his plan to man’s future decision.
Actually, I am not the one who came up with the word “conform.” It comes from those who believe that God looked down that tunnel. You call it “bloviations,” I’m just tracing the trail (“quoting”) theologians.
Went right to it. Thanks!
This is the exact line of demarcation for me: the definitions of "Time" and "Eternity".
Calvinism is intellectually stimulating, but never satisfying.
The Creator made Time for Man, to limit us, so that we, knowing we have a limited number of days, might apply our hearts unto wisdom.
He, on the other hand, IS the beginning and end. He is there at Creation, and with us in the New Jerusalem.
"Omnipresent" describes this, but inadequately for most to grasp, apparently. Not a Scriptural term, but proof that men once understood "He that dwells in eternity" is ever present in that eternity.
Omniscience- He knows all of Time at once...every second of it, til He eliminates it again.... "foreknowledge" by definition, to those of us stuck in Time.
You've seen me post it before, but:
God is The Sovereign.
But He, willing to demonstrate His glory, love, mercy, all that He is...does not yet enforce that Sovereignty fully.
As the Elect, we are fully under His Sovereignty, by position. But we are still able to transgress His expressed Will and Law. The same corruption that damns us all in the first place, only leaves when we shed this mortal coil.
He will not impute iniquity against His own. But in this lifetime, earthly judgement comes.
At the end, He will restore all things to being under His Sovereignty, and will have no need to enforce it.
This is the "restoration of all things" (IMO).
