God is Infinite and Eternal. He occupies an infinite everywhere, and He knows an infinite everything that is positive and creative. Psalm 147:5; Isaiah 40:28.
Everything God has created reflects His Word, including science. Psalm 19:1-4; Romans 1:19-20. Certain modern science experiments have proven that every moment of decision in a person's life affects both the past and the future of that person. Decisions made in old age affects what kind of baby that person was, and decisions made by that baby, such as whether to cry or not, affects what kind of person that baby will be. In other words, science has discovered that every moment of decision in a person's life affects every other moment throughout the entire life of that person, past and future. This fact means that our experience of our lives as passing from past to future amounts to but an illusion. We are old when we are a baby, and we are a baby when we are old, and at every moment between. Our lives consist of but a set of decisions that we make. That which we decide causes us to be what we are in the past and the future. As the existentialists like to say, we are freedom itself. The Declaration of Independence states this same truth about our God given rights when Thomas Jefferson wrote about "...life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness..."
God's has eternal life with no beginning or end. Just like man whom He created in His image, God's eternal life consists of every decision He has ever made. This means God is infinite freedom, but He never chooses to create anything except that which is righteous and good. He is a Holy God. God possesses an Almighty Power to decide, and every decision defines His existence. In other words, God is Almighty Power defined by Infinite Information. John 1:1.
As Infinite Information, God knows everything that will ever happen in His eternal universe. However, since God created every human to be free, just as He is, then God must wait for every human to decide what they will do, which in turn determines who they are, so He can know their past and their eternal future. Nothing can be known until decisions are made. In this way, predestination and free will are both true at the same time.
But even though man possesses free will and can choose to disobey and sin against God, this fact does not mean that man can ever thwart or change the eternal will and plans of God for mankind or His universe. In other words, God's eternal will will be accomplished no mater what humans decide to do, good or bad. Numbers 23:19; Ecclesiastes 3:14. One of the constant themes of the Bible concerns God's ability to change sinful systems into good and creative systems over time. This theme reflects God's will for His entire universe, including all mankind. Eventually, God will purge all sin and evil from His universe and recreate and restore it to its original goodness and purity, including all mankind. Genesis 1:31; Romans 8:18-25; Luke 20:38; Luke 23:34; I Corinthians 15:22; II Peter 3:9; Revelation 21:1-5.
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