The End From the Beginning
It says is the scriptures that God knows the end from the beginning, and I know some people struggle to reconcile this with agency. If God knows what you are going to choose, if the end it set, are you really free to choose? Yes. I like to think of it this way. Imagine I have a marble and I prop up a book on a table. If I put the marble at the top of the book and let go, what's going to happen? It's going to roll down. You know the outcome before I do it. You know the end from the beginning because you understand the physics of a rolling object near Earth's surface. Or imagine you ask your best friend what flavor ice cream they want. You know they are going to say chocolate, or strawberry, or cookie dough, or whatever before they say it. You still ask, but you know the answer because you know your friend and understand their likes and dislikes. So in both cases, you can predict, or know, what is going to happen in the future because you have an understanding of the present ...