Here’s a thought I’m kicking around:
Is God is omni-temporal (outside of time; yet present in every moment of time)?
- If He is also omniscient, then we can properly say that every movement of every man’s actions of every day are written out as if it were in a book before he began his first day. Sure enough, that’s what Ps 139:16 says.
- If He is also omnipotent, then He is powerful enough to stop any event He doesn’t wish to allow (eg, He could have the person die in infancy, or have them die of a heart attack moments before they do what He doesn’t want). So we have to say that He [at the very least] permits all actions that comes to pass.
- If God is omnioptent, omniscient and omnitemporal, then everything He knows to be our “future” is indistinguishable to Him from what He knows of our “past”. And if we – and all our events – are indistinguishable from actions in our past, then His knowledge of our actions are indistinguishable from a decree for our actions.
I’m wondering if that tidbit is coherent and Biblically consistent.
(And here’s an article I need to read: https://www.trinityfoundation.org/journal.php?id=284 )
I have just come upon this website and am very impressed. I did notice you have been around for years. I am an engineer so the fact that we both think logically is not surprising. Looking forward to discussing escatology with you if I can navigate your website in the future.
Hi Richard,
Thanks for the comment.
I’ve not spent a whole lot of time digging through amillennialism and post-millennialism, so I wouldn’t say I have a terribly robust eschatological framework. I was raised as a pre-trib pre-mil, and over the past ~15 years or so, have come to find that view inconsistent with Scripture. I have a few articles on this site about the shortcomings of the pre-trib view.
I’d be best described as a post-trib pre-mil.
Thanks.