2/13/10

Just Thoughts

I think there's more to explore in this idea, but I thought I'd share it anyway.


Regarding salvation, I've faced a great deal of mental difficulty in trying to resolve the dichotomy that is described in the "free will vs. predestination" argument.


If we're free, how can God know what we're going to do?  But, if he doesn't know, then He's not really omniscient.  He is omniscient... Is predestination (the theory of God's having hand-picked certain people to follow Him before creation even happened) the only option?


I see the disconnect.  Recently, I can't help but wonder if it is a result of our way of knowing.


Our "knowing" is faithless. It comes after. We see something, then we extrapolate meaning from that thing. And, we "know" that meaning because we have seen proof of it. Before this proof, we could've only theorized or guessed. To us, things that are knowable are reoccurring. So, our way of "knowing" is based on the fact that we are not in control. If I was in direct control of a situation, I could know something without need for proof. I could also know something before it happened. I could know something before the "how" of the knowing ever came into question.  


Perhaps, God "knows" everything simply because He is in control, and not because everything has been determined already...