>>20864528Free will is a divine mystery, my guy, I agree. The fact that God already sees the evil we will commit because he is outside time doesn’t negate the fact that we created it, in time, out of OUR free will. The same reason Jesus predicting Peter’s denial wasn’t God causing Peter to deny Christ, it was God seeing Peter’s denial before he willingly chose to do so, because time doesn’t exist to God. This is proven by the fact that Peter still denies Christ after Jesus literally tells him he will do so hours before. God’s love is so infinite that by nature he has to allow us to exercise freedom. And this gives the potential for evil. God would rather us exist, and evil potentially exist, than we not exist at all. That’s how much he loves us, per se, despite our propensity for transgressions in pride.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of
>the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.Similar idea to purusha in Hindu thought, but far more profound.
“This is my body, which is broken for you”
Existence itself is a divine mystery and the Divine self limiting, self sacrificing grace of the Son, the Logos, the Christ, allowed it to happen
