Oh, I understand. I don't really agree. He has foreordained the existence that we find ourselves in. Whether or not he is responsible for all that happens or whether he merely allows what happens is the mystery.
Deu 29:29 The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Is God pleased at the suffering of starving children? Does God actually starve the children so that his purposes will be fulfilled? Or is this something He would prefer did not happen?
Oh, I understand. I don't really agree. He has foreordained the existence that we find ourselves in. Whether or not he is responsible for all that happens or whether he merely allows what happens is the mystery. Is God pleased at the suffering of starving children? Does God actually starve the children so that his purposes will be fulfilled? Or is this something He would prefer did not happen?As I said, I'll proceed onto the questions of Theodicy after you acknowledge the obvious implications of Omnitemporal Foreknowledge as it concerns all possible Creations.
I asked a question, and I'm entitled to an honest answer. I'm not interested in proceeding if you are unwilling to acknowledge Jesus' specific words and specific teaching on the subject of Tyre, Sidon, and Sodom; because if you are unwilling to admit the Truth of Jesus' teaching on this subject, you won't be proceeding from a genuinely Biblical foundation.
So, before I proceed to Theodicy, answer the question:
Matthew 11: 20 - 27 -- Then Jesus began to denounce the cities in which most of his miracles had been performed, because they did not repent. "Woe to you, Korazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! If the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you. And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to the skies? No, you will go down to the depths. If the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day. But I tell you that it will be more bearable for Sodom on the day of judgment than for you." At that time Jesus said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your good pleasure. "All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."
So, before all Creation...
- God foreknew Tyre, Sidon and Sodom's free choice NOT TO REPENT in the case of His non-performance of such Miracles; AND
- God foreknew Tyre, Sidon and Sodom's free choice TO REPENT in the case of His performance of such Miracles; AND
- God CHOSE NOT TO PERFORM these Miracles in Tyre, Sidon and Sodom, a choice which had as its perfectly foreknown result the NON-Repentance unto Damnation of Tyre, Sidon and Sodom -- just exactly as He foreknew would be the certain and determinate result of Creating this particular scenario.
TRUE or FALSE??