The Challenge

2003-2-20 06:43:00

Thought I would make a few more comments on foreknowledge. I threw out the challenge that there is nothing in the scriptures to indicate that God knows all things that will happen in the future. Of course, many of the higher lives understand the principle of cycles and have some knowledge of the Plan. They can therefore see through the eyes of God and see certain definite events that will unfold, but all the details in between the various stages are not seen nor does anyone even want to see them.

Why would God, a million years ago, even want to know which number it is I am now picking which is between one and a hundred? If for no other reason, God does not know every future event because it would bore Him to death to discover all the useless data.
I read through the list of scriptures given and none of them indicate that God knows all future events. BM points out that Jesus knew that Judas would betray him. That is only one thing, not billions of things. You also point out that God knew us before we were born. All of us have lived many incarnations and all of us knew quite a few things before our current birth, even some future things, but that does not mean we know all things.

In truth many things attributed to God originated from fear. Fear of what?

Fear of offending God.

If the choice is between stating that God knows all things that can ever be or He does not know the believer will play it safe and state that God knows all things. If one errs it's better to err on the side of praise. This is the way subjects behave around a tyrant. If the choice comes between giving the one with power over life and death a positive attribute or not the subject will always tell the tyrant he is as great and good as possible just to play it safe.

Now, lets us examine the subject using the Law of Correspondences. We are made in the image of God. In other words, we are reflections of God. Just as the physical body of God is the universe ("the elements are the tabernacle of God") even so is our physical body a universe that we preside over.

As Gods over our universe do we know all things happening or that will happen in our body? Are we aware of what every single atom is doing?

No.

Do we want to be?

No.

Could we be if we desired?

Yes. If you wanted to single out one atom and discover it, this could be done once the principle is mastered.

The point is that we tune into our body as a whole and use the body as a whole. The smaller parts of the body are taken care of by lesser Intelligences that circulate within it and build and renew form.

Another point.

If it were possible that God were to know everything that will materialize through our decisions, or every decision that we will ever make, then that reduces us to no more than walking computers that are programmed to perform as expected. Why in the world would God give commandments to a computer program when He wrote the program? Why would He be angry that the computer program does not obey when He already knew this would happen? God should be happy at our disobedience if that was foreknown because all is going according to plan.

Why would God even want to continue to exist when there is nothing new to discover or to know?

Many are afraid to consider these thoughts because of the fear of offending God, but in truth the only way to get the attention of the Great Ones is to overcome the fear and question everything - even the orthodox attributes and descriptions of God.