Jim dies and goes to heaven (I know it’s a long shot), but instead of the pearly gates, there’s a fork in the road, and a sign pointing down each path. One sign says ‘Believers in Determinism’ and the other says ‘Believers in Free Will’.
Jim has always believed in predestination, so he goes down that road. He eventually comes to a big door with the word ‘DETERMINISM’ written over the top. He knocks, and an angel opens the door and says, ‘Why have you come to my door today?’ Jim says, ‘Well, there were these two signs, and I chose the one that said determinism.’ The angel says, ‘and you chose it? then you can’t come in here,’ and slams the door.
Jim’s confused. Finally he trudges back to the crossroads and goes down the other road. Eventually he comes to another large door that says ‘FREE WILL.’ He knocks and another angel opens the door and says, ‘Why did you come this way?’
It has been said God is outside of Time and has a Master plan before space, matter and therefore time began. This is called His Sovereign Will which is moderated by His good pleasure, no questions asked no help requested. You can see here that your creation and personal being is unnecessary, necessarily. God merely unfolds the plan like a rug and we all are mere dust in the carpet fibers. Time for all intents and purposes is the duration between God’s perfect conception and completion, according to God’s immutable and unchangeable plan.
So why does this God bother is the first thing that comes to my mind, and second why should I worship this God? Do I look like some dark age dork who thinks the earth is flat, and God is only interested in being the Sovereign because they said so. This view is imposed on the God of the Universe and not reflected in the actual narrative of scripture.
God’s Word manifests a universe and then commits to the Moment, and in observation calls it good and full of potential. There is no reason that an All Powerful, All Knowing, Ever Present God has to fix the future, like some insecure god of the Greeks. The Moment is the best place for God to effect a Future in concert with earths children, not because of a have to but choose to. There is no need for all possibilities to be reduced to mere illusion and nothing more. There is no need to cement a nonexistent end with zero input from those made in God’s image.
God’s Infinite intelligence and a heart of love, in place of a tin god’s divine pleasure, reveals a deeper process. Where angels failed before man shall succeed in concert with a God embracing all possibilities, fearing no free choice or strange trail taken. Mixing all the colors together like a Master Painter with an open vision, that includes those new colors freshly co-manifested. In fact expressively excited and passionate about the endless horizon, and willing to be patient for the weaker vessels to grow into the gods of Creations God.
Once committed in love to the creation and it’s pearls of great price, now is the only reality an Infinite God, need dwell in. To see the Open Plan unfolding according to His Interactive Will, Worlds without End amen.
