Don't feel bad. Most people who believe in Jesus don't understand this either. I spend a lot of time talking about this to a lot of people and most have not been given understanding. And in truth it is not the level of understanding that a person needs to have eternity with God. But many poeple use God predestination as a kind of justification for hating Him. But in truth they cannot understand that it is Gods Foreknowledge that allows Him to have pre-determined the eternal destination of all who have lived. And that Foreknowledge also allows us to have our free will. Pretty important word Foreknowledge.
Foreknowledge, got it. So he knows ahead of time that I am going to reject Him, and thus his inability to change it is more agitating for him? I mean, if I was a teacher, and I sat 1-on-1 with a student, face to face, told him EVERYTHING he needed to know about the test, which is on ME of course. and when test day came around he failed, I would feel bad about it, maybe I didn't do the right thing? Maybe my teaching method wasn't good enough? Maybe it only works on SOME students, some of my children but not all?
If I were an all-powerful teacher, and I was perfect, and represented perfection, shouldn't I expect a 100% from all of my students? Shouldn't I have created the BEST method of teaching? If my students weren't perfect, and didn't all get A's should I assume that there was something inherently wrong with them, something malfunctioning in their brain or maybe it was the test itself?
Moreover, if I CREATED the students, with my own two hands, and I was perfect at creating them, with a
foreknowledge of what was necessary to create the BEING with the strongest, most reliable capacity for understanding my perfection...better yet, if I created a being with JUST enough understanding to make sense of the book I will create with the perfect
foreknowledge of what types of people will accept this idea, why would I subject the people I personally created to REJECT me, why would I subject them to Hell.
I am a human right? And I don't understand this "perfect" logic. Namely:
God is perfect and has foreknowledge of all things. He is all powerful. He created beings to worship and love His glory. These beings are created by Him for Him...He is love.
Some of the beings He creates, with foreknowledge of the requirements to create believers, believe in Him
without contemplation, or with little to no contemplation. Others reject Him
with full contemplation. They think, they read, they assess, they read again, they think, and yet still with the same, if not MORE knowledge than the believers, they STILL choose to reject Him. If they don't have more of, or the same amount of knowledge then they have LESS knowledge, which is WHY they won't understand. But they could only have less knowledge if I set the stage as such.
Despite, God will punish them to eternity in hell, even though
every aspect of them, every neuron in their brain which He so perfectly designed, every nuance of their thought is controlled and
directly created by Him, with foreknowledge of who and who won't believe in him. If this is not true then He has not created them and something outside of His being has created them. And He is NOT the creator and controller of all things. At what point does he take responsibility for my failure to understand? Or at what point does he NOT remain God, namely, the perfect creator of all things, including my rejection of Him?
Did He or did He not create every aspect of me, my ability to understand, my ability to misunderstand, my ability to accept, my ability to reject? If he created these aspects, why am I responsible for overpowering his creation. If he created my brain as the type that does
not understand His word, because it seems childish and immature to explain to grown, civilized adults who understand right and wrong as a utility for societal progress, if he created my brain as the type which rejects him, why is it that I am responsible, being a part of his creation, to outsmart HIM and believe.
He gave me my brain and I am supposed to use it to believe in Him, yet he made my brain unable to, because the logic behind believing in Him makes no sense to my type of brain...
At what point is he responsible?
Or at what point is he not all powerful?
Because there are only one of two possibilities which oppose each other...
He either created all things, including my brain and its propensity to reject Him and thus is responsible for my rejection of him, because he created that small inch of my brain that looks at the information and rejects it as fallacious information.
Or he did not create all things, specifically the section in my brain that rejects Him, and he is thus not responsible for my rejection, I am, and he is also not the creator of all things?
