Good and Evil, Towb and Ra

[Dale (evolutionary providentialist)]

@rrobs, @JerryN: From earlier…

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(As an aside, something I’ve mentioned here in different places, is that I like the suggestion that QM might be hinting that the fundamental reality of the universe is information.) But about QM and free will, we’re maybe getting down to the ‘interface’ between God and spacetime. A video that visualizes the concepts of past and future coexisting as spacetime ‘slices’: That fits the suggestion that God is omnitemporal (no, not really the B theory of time except maybe with respect to God ; - …

This fits too:

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The point that is not being understood from where I sit is that the word ‘predestination’ (or any other tensed word that doesn’t really apply to God’s relationship to us) isn’t really a problem when we are ready to confess that there is a wonderful mystery in how God, being immune from the constraints of sequential time (and I contend, omnitemporal), relates dynamically with us who are so bound. I would again point to the abundant evidence of his providences where what is preternatural is not the violation of any natural laws, but his sovereignty over timing and placing (and all the necessary precursors! ←note the pre- prefix ).

Judas had free will but it would have been better for him not to have been born. Maybe that should be terrifying and perhaps compel some to want to be or to be sure they are adopted or newly birthed (or any of several other God-ordained metaphors ) into family and brotherhood with Jesus. That confidence can be had or else Paul would not have talked about it some several times.