What is there for God to plan for since He is outside of time and knows our free decisions? He knows the outcome would be love winning and evil losing from eternity.
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Agreed! I hope the final outcome comes in my lifetime though!
The economy of salvation is brought to the world precisely through the diverse operations of our free wills, is it not?
What I think is happening is the tightening of the Church: it will become smaller and purer, and it will know better who her enemies are. This is the work started by His Holiness and I think he rightly sees it extending beyond his lifetime and ours.
No, I don’t think the end is that near. Christ will come when the hope for the unchurched is extinguished, but we see renewal in the Church. I believe we shall see a collapse of the secular democratic order and a birth of a Christian civilization on the ruins. It will take generations.