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Some theodicy and temporal considerations.
I had a deep thought about how the future doesn't exist, because it is based on the freely chosen actions of people in the present, which are not fixed and determined. (Even fedoras could make an appeal to quantum indeterminacy here.)
If the future is predetermined, then the Creator is engaged in mental masturbation. There is no way around this without imagining a contradictory universe, in which the Creator is necessarily imperfect. (Predestination "paradox" is really three undesirable outcomes)
If the future is completely random, then the Creator is totally incomprehensible, capricious, fell, and inconsistent. Worse than determinism, it's God the Nihilist. It really is equivalent to nihilism (take note, fedoras)
But if the future is based on our meaningful choices where it is applicable, and determinate where we did not choose anything, then we start to get meaningful free will reconciled with omnibenevolence.
The Creator must permit us to be a taste of eternity, that we might make meaningful decisions, being in his image. I don't think that we can comprehend this. If every word in all languages can be defined in terms of the other words in that language or in other languages, whence did the words come originally? It's an infinite recursion of definitions; it wraps over itself like a fractal. Goedel's incompleteness theorem likely applies here.
