Doesn’t God know before He creates us, who is doomed, and who isn’t?
Yes
“Doesn’t God know before He creates us, who is doomed, and who isn’t?”
There was this tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the garden of Eden, right? And God told Adam and Eve, `Anything else, but don’t touch that . . . ‘
But they do, see they’re naked, are ashamed and clothe themselves.
So He decides that they have to leave or `they may eat from the tree of life and become like us.’
By eating from the tree of knowledge, they became sentient creatures, rather than simply sitting on top of the food chain, capable of choosing items from either column A or column B.
Even God didn’t know what His son would do, that is, how he would decide, when faced with choosing whether to walk that walk, after talking the talk, in a manner of speaking.
But the wages of sin are death, right? If death is such a bad thing, why wouldn’t He let us eat from the tree of life as well? Made in His own image and all that, loved us so much He acquiesced in what He didn’t even require of Abraham . . .