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student asks if God knows the future how come he allowed people to cause much trouble? i made an initial generalized answer here ( http://winelfredpasamba.blogspot.com/2013/09/gods-omniscience-prophecy-freedom-of.html) coming from the results/profit side. student comes back and asks if i have another answer. i look up adventistbiblicalresearch for "freewill" and also wikipedia while skimming articles these ideas formed: 1. God knows everything like we know every possible move and result in a tic-tac-toe, yet the player still has choice.  In chess it is more complicated so we don't know all the possible results.  But God has unlimited thinking so he knows all the possible results of all the possible choices. 2. Players have freedom of choice. 3. God knows the future because he can hover over time, he is not limited by time, he is before and after time.  He knows all our future choices.  Example: i tell a student if he doesn't study he will have difficul...

Worthy of Long Service The Sabbath school should be a place where the jewels of truth are searched for and rescued from their environment of error, and placed in their true setting in the framework of the gospel. Precious gems of truth, long lost sight of, are now to be restored to the children of God. The themes of justification by faith, the righteousness of Christ, should be presented in our schools, that the youth and children may understand these important subjects, and teachers and scholars may know the way of salvation. Sacred and eternal principles connected with the plan of salvation have long been lost from sight, but they must be restored to their proper place in the plan of salvation, and made to appear in their heavenly light, and penetrate the moral darkness in which the world is enshrouded.  {CSW 12.2} https://egwwritings.org/?ref=en_CSW.12

Outline 1. Definitions 2. Theory of words, languages, expressions, ideas, truth, reality 3. Theory of results, hopes, proofs, history, patterns, future, faith 4. Summary Definitions Freedom The power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint. Absence of subjection to foreign domination or despotic government. Choice An act of selecting or making a decision when faced with two or more possibilities. Theory of words, languages, expressions, ideas, truth, reality Words represent ideas. Words usually have multiple senses (meanings).  Languages are imperfect. Languages are different sets.  Not all languages have accurate mappings of words to other languages, some are missing, some have no equivalent, some are combined, some are ambiguous. Expressions are ideas put in language/words.  Truth is what is.  Reality is what is, also.  Awareness is what we can perceive via sensory (sight, hearing, seeing, etc.) or...