Genesis 1:1 - Revelation 22:21

You truly have a mind for thought. But if you can assume/believe in a God who has the power to create and execute such a program, with all the variables you have described; with the power to create and destroy; with the knowledge of the ages, why is it so difficult for you to believe he can do so without manipulating the ending of His creation by accounting for those variables. If He has the ability to step out of nowhere onto nothing, and with nothing create everything, He surly has the power to set freewill into motion and not play out mankinds existance as a puppet show for His amusement. If He were to simply adjust things as needed to obtain His desired outcome, what was Christ doing here? If He wanted a group of people to believe a certain way, and worship a certain way, He would have simply planted the desire to believe and worship that way in their minds and would not have had to allow His Son (His triurnal 2nd part) to live through an earthly existance with such a painful and humiliating death. He would have simply altered the reality of the living to produce the desired outcome and would have had no need to interceed for us by introducing somebody for us to believe in. He would not have had to do many of the things recorded in the Bible as they are recorded.

It seems that someone as effecient as God in creation, could find easier ways to manipulate outcomes if He is not truly allowing for freewill. Instead of a 40 day and night flood to wipe out all living creatures, save for a few in an arc, he could have simply manipulated the program. It was man's freewill that got mankind into enough trouble that destruction became an option for God. Yes, He knew before the creation of Earth that that option would be exercised, but He did not take away the freewill of man to make the decisions that would lead to the need for that option.

Thanks to God's revelation to John, we know that the ultimate outcome of God's creation is one of paradise. But we also know that the road to paradise will be impossible for the non-believer to travel. Revelation speaks of people praying for death to come swiftly, but it does not. There will be mass casualties in the final days... not a pretty place to be. But we still have the freewill to either choose to go forth into this death and destruction, or call out to Him for salvation and be spared to live with Him in eternity. That is the freewill mankind has. The choice to follow the world, or follow the plan. He has given us the directions, it is up to us to read and impliment them.

Dracimas