[agere_contra]

So the Jews said to Him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?"

Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am."

God is indeed outside of time and space.

Now, He knows how we will choose - whether we will follow Him or fall away from Him. But unless we make our choices then there is nothing - no act of faith or act of defiance or neglect - for God to see.

We are not predestined to be damned or saved - we have a choice. God does indeed see our choices - but only because we get to make them.

[agere_contra]

(bed time, goodnight to all)

[CynicalBear]

Romans 9:15 For he says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion." 16 So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.