[MHGinTN]

"Peter could not choose not to deny him though he probably tried." Careful what you imply. That Jesus could know what would actually happen for the next hours is not the same as Jesus being the one responsible for Peter denying His Lord three times before the Cock crowed.

Let's use a simple thought experiment to explain:

There is a land called Flatland, and everyone living there has only two expressions of dimension space; they have length and width, but no height. There is nothing not in their plane which they can sense. You however are a three spatial expressions being, having length, width and height, so you can see the plane broadly where flatlanders can only see what is on their plane within their sight limits linearly and nothing below or above their plane, and only things that have a line of sight which intersects their location. You see a large sphere approaching one in flatland from above the plane, about to slam into the flatlander. You can see the large sphere and the flatlander even though the flatlander has yet to see the spot the shadow of the looming sphere makes on the plane. Are you responsible for the spot slamming into the flatlander when it does?

[Seven_0]

"Peter could not choose not to deny him though he probably tried." Careful what you imply. That Jesus could know what would actually happen for the next hours is not the same as Jesus being the one responsible for Peter denying His Lord three times before the Cock crowed.

I’m not trying to imply. God is the ultimate cause of everything. He put Peter into a situation where he would choose to deny Christ. The flesh always fails to please God. A lesson we are slow to learn.