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fakename
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Just wondering, assuming all history was the same, could God decide to not interfere w/it (not become human, not help Israel, not est. Christianity)?
Why or Why not?
Why or Why not?
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buffalo
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His intervention is because of love. He is total consummate love.
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Katholish
Guest
Well, all of history is shaped by God’s promise of Redemption, but you can ask, if once Adam and Eve had sinned, did God have to redeem mankind, and the answer is a clear “no”. The Redemption was something God freely chose and He was not bound by His Nature to redeem us.
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manualman
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God wishes us to freely choose Him out of love, not coercion. If he were to be visible to us in all his Glory, we’d choose him out of sheer terror instead. NOT the plan. 
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tonyrey
Guest
Our infinitely loving Father need not have intervened precisely as He has done but He would not leave us totally in the dark!
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Sair
Guest
Does foreknowledge of the future constitute an aspect of omniscience, which is claimed as part of your God’s nature? If so, this is confusing - if God knew in advance, as incontrovertible fact, everything that would happen at any given future time, that seems to me to preclude even God having options as to what he might choose to do. But this is quite possibly steering the thread in a direction it wasn’t intended to go…
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manualman
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Maybe it’s a tangent, but maybe not! God exists outside of time and space (which are a part of creation itself). He is present right now (to Him) at all points in Creation history: past, present and future. It’s not that the future is foreordained, He just knows what we will do. Obviously you and I can’t quite comprehend this (unless your brain just exploded).
So God has designed history with intervention in ways that both preserve human free will to choose Him or reject Him, but also for us to be able to see His presence in history if we choose to be open to it.
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