CHAPTER 28: THE GOD OF LOVE OR GOD OF PREDESTINATION

CHAPTER 28: THE GOD OF LOVE OR GOD OF PREDESTINATION 

God, as Almighty God and the Father of Jesus, because of his own free will and counsel, created mankind for his own pleasure.

God determined that freewill must be given to each created being; he included decisive capabilities to choose between obedience and non-obedience.

In order for each being to choose their own willful path of Godly love and servitude, God gave each of them free-will thinking. God even gave angels free will..

You may believe that because Angels do the "Will of God" and God's will never changes, Angels were created with no will, only to do God's will.

This leads to a misconception: You may believe that if Angels are involved with a condition or in a situation concerning mankind they can only act and react as God has told them or commanded them to do. This would mean…that the condition or situation has already been…predetermined. This would mean there could be no randomness (variables that may change or occur without foreknowledge) about any condition or situation with which an Angel would be involved.

However, you may believe that mankind has free will, which requires the randomness of absolute chance which would break the causal chain of any predetermined circumstance.

Humanity would not be able to respond adequately to our choices if they were predetermined.

If you believe that angels have no free will, then you have to believe that God predestined all the events with which an angel is involved. There can be no randomness or variability of change. However, if the situation is not predetermined, then the Angel would be powerless to make a decision about how to deal with randomness since it is not predetermined.

In effect, this would mean that everything, including the next second that happens, God has already thought out and knows and causes everything to be according to his will.

According to the predetermination theory, it would be impossible for God to change any situation and God would not be an omnipotent, omniscient, benevolent God.

Consequently if in all situations all angels are predestinated, then all mankind is also predestinated, so there is no free will. This would make God’s grace, his plan of salvation a sham.

This in essence would make God not the God of Love, but the God of reciprocal narcissism. The God of reciprocal narcissism would not allow mankind to have feelings of love but would create in mankind a false "feeling of good" which is not true love.

The question of "why didn't he just make man perfectly in the first place" cannot be answered logically based on free will or predetermination.

This is not to say God does not use predestination within His plan of grace. In order to bring about his salvation plan, God has predetermined people. But God does not predetermine any person’s salvation.