[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so very much for sharing your thoughts, dear brother in Christ, and thank you for your encouragements!

Not implying that God had to ‘concider’ anything, being bound to ‘discision making’ such as we are- I think natural facts and laws abotu everything simply dictated creation in an automatic fashion that didn’t require descision making- ugggh- leaping into another theological realm with that claim lol

LOLOL! That's precisely why man-as-the-observer time-relative theological disputes are foreign to me.

God's Name is I AM.

Beyond knowing that is His Name, we cannot put ourselves in His shoes so to speak.

By the way, one of my favorite meditations is that His Name, I AM, answers all my concerns.

"When will ...?" I AM

"How did ...?" I AM

"Why does ...?" I AM

"But what about...?" I AM

and so on.

To God be the glory!

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God's Name is I AM.

Beyond knowing that is His Name, we cannot put ourselves in His shoes so to speak.

Oh, so very true, dearest sister in Christ! And how very easy it is for us humans to lose sight of this indisputable fact. The result being that so often we see God through "rational filters" of our own making, which do not at all apply to God, let alone fully "specify" His divine will.

But He has already told us what His divine will is: I Am That Am. In so saying, He announces Himself to us by the name Creator and Lord of LIFE. Not — please notice — by the name God of Reason. Our Christian doctrines are "reasonable" to us. But they are not God in His inexpressibly sublime fullness. No mere human description could ever be.

And so, I wholly agree with you, "That's precisely why man-as-the-observer time-relative theological disputes are foreign to me." We shouldn't push doctrinal differences so hard that we occlude the real presence of God from our mind and spirit, and so lose Him in the ensuing dispute.

Thank you oh so very much for your absolutely lovely essay/post, dearest sister in Christ!