“Maybe, but why would God bother with tricks He must have foreknown wouldn’t work?”
I’ve no idea, Kosta mou, no idea, but our ways aren’t God’s ways are they? In any event, it didn’t seem to bother +Athanasius the Great.
Kolo: I’ve no idea, Kosta mou, no idea, but our ways aren’t God’s ways are they? In any event, it didn’t seem to bother +Athanasius the Great.
It didn't seem to bother +John of Damascus, either. Concerning Providence:
When, therefore, we give heed to these things we ought to be filled with wonder at all the works of Providence, and praise them all, and accept them all without enquiry, even though they are in the eyes of many unjust, because the Providence of God is beyond our ken and comprehension, while our reasonings and actions and the future are revealed to His eyes alone. And by “all” I mean those that are not in our hands: for those that are in our power are outside the sphere of Providence and within that of our Free-will.