There sure is a BIG gap in what # I am reading, and the # of my reply to it!!!
#197
If not, this whole 'World' & 'Heaven' thing is a big waste of God's (and our) time!
#274
Since you believe that what God knows can be changed, I have a little question: Let's say that God knows that you will never repent and believe; what can you do to change that?
Not quite........ from OUR viewpoint it can be changed: from His, no.
Nothing.
Let me try an imperfect example........
Suppose I had seen a Sneak Preview of a movie: I know the end of it. The plot had many twists and turns, causing me to assume the ending many times before it was actually revealed.
When YOU go see it, the end could STILL be one of many outcomes. I know it, but for you, MOVING IN TIME SYNC with the movie as it unfolds, there are STILL possibilities.
We're are flowing along in OUR time, while GOD has SEEN the end. HE knows our FINAL choice. Thus, Paul continually warns, cajoles, pleads with BELIEVERS to 'stay on the path': do NOT toss away what we HAD believed.
If I see someone toss a computer monitor off a ten story building, I KNOW what the outcome will be, before it ever hits the ground. Now, if a truck were to drive under the falling object with a big, soft airbag, the outcome, from MY point of view is 'different' than before. But, if it were placed there under control of a movie director, he KNEW the outcome of the monitor. He 'saw' things in the 'future' that I had no knowledge of.