Free Will Exist in Predestination (6)

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If this is your first time reading this article, you might want to read up the other parts first. You can follow this links to Part-1, Part-2, Part-3, Part-4 and Part-5
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It had been awhile for those of you who has been following this thread. I was having trouble trying to give a conclusive ending to this topic... so for this final installment, I'm going to bring you an experience (try out the following scenario).

Scenario: Going to church on time
Objective: To bring the family to church

Start - You return home an hour before Sabbath service starts to pick up the family to church (the journey will usually takes about 20min). To your dismay, you found none of them are ready to leave and the children are still sitting in front of the TV!

You became:
(a) furious at the sight and started shouting at everyone to get ready quickly -- Go to Section 500
(b) angry and start directing everyone to get ready quickly -- Go to Section 300

200 - (**) You make a U-turn to go home to have this problem fixed and started scolding her until you reach home and order her to get down immediately. Shouting after her, you threaten to leave without her if she doesn’t come out in 5min.

Finally, after slightly more then 5min you are ready to leave home (again) and drove off with greater speed to compensate for the time lost. Determine to get to church on time, you zigzagged through the traffic going as fast as you could, knowing that created fear in your passengers (just to teach them a lesson).

About 500m to destination, your wife sitting next to you stroked your thigh lightly. You turn slightly and saw from her expression and slightly moist eyes; you knew instantly that she had wanted you to slow down.

(a) You ignore her, thinking that it is only another 500m to go -- Go to Section 800
(b) You slows down on her hint -- Go to Section 900

300 - Slightly more than 40min later – you managed to get everyone out of the house and into the car. You knew that you’ll probably be late for service and drove off at your normal cruising speed.

400m down the road, your eldest daughter squeaked – “Oh! No! I think, I’ve forgotten to switch of the iron!”

(a) Now it is getting to you and you felt really angry now -- Go to Section 200
(b) You’re frustrated and knew instantly you’ll not going to make it on time to church -- Go to Section 600

400 - 10min later and you saw the family started coming out one-by-one. You waited another 5min for everyone to get in the car and you drove off speedily (burning some rubber), hoping that you’ll still be able to reach church on time.

400m down the road, your eldest daughter squeaked – “Oh! No! I think, I’ve forgotten to switch of the iron!”

(a) You’re frustrated and blew your top -- Go to Section 200
(b) You’re frustrated and knew instantly you’ll not going to make it on time to church -- Go to Section 600

500 - 30min later – the family is still not ready to leave, anxious and feeling very angry you announced that transport will leave in 10min and everyone must get out of the house in the stipulated time!

(a) You grumbled and walked out of the house, shouting that you’ll be waiting in the car! -- Go to Section 400
(b) You tried to assist in whatever you can to get the family ready while still feeling irate. -- Go to Section 700

600 - You make a U-turn to go home to have this problem fixed. You were quiet along the way, trying to calm yourself and thinking how to make the best of the situation. On reaching you told your daughter to hurry up.

Slightly more than 5min later, you are ready to go. You drove off faster than your normal cruising speed and told the family this can be avoided if everyone were to take service time more seriously and get prepare ahead of time. You explain that mistakes are often made when we do thing in haste.

As you approach the junction (turning toward church), you saw a slight traffic jam in front and concluded that there was an accident ahead. As you pass the scene, you realized that you could have been in the same accident if you had driven a little faster.

You thank God that you are able to reach church safely although you’re almost 80min late.
Go to Review B.

700 - (**) 15min later you had everyone out of the house and into the car. You drove off speedily (burning some rubber), hoping that you’ll still be able to reach church on time. You zigzagged through the traffic, going as fast as you could, knowing that created fear in your passengers (just to teach them a lesson).

About 500m to destination, your wife sitting next to you stroked your thigh lightly. You turn slightly and saw from her expression and slightly moist eyes; you know instantly that she had wanted you to slow down.

(a) You ignore her, thinking that it was only another 500m to go -- Go to Section 800
(b) You slows down on her hint -- Go to Section 900

800 - (*) As you approach the junction (turning toward church), you heard a loud crash on your right and the next moment you saw a red car crashing through the grilled road divider and headed toward you. You tried to steer away from it but there wasn’t enough time and the last thing you heard was a super loud BANG!

You were crushed instantly when the red car crashes into the driver side door. Your family was seriously injured. You are dead and your family didn’t make it to church that day.
Go to Review C.

900 - Knowing that you’re already late, it does not matter now. You slow to slightly faster than your normal cruising speed. As you approach the junction (turning toward church), you heard a loud crash and you saw about 100m away a red car had crashed through the grilled road divider and headed toward you.

You jammed on your brakes and red car veer pass in front of you, misses your car by a few meters and went up the curb onto the pedestrian way and into a tree. You got out of your car and get your wife to drive the children to church while you render assistance to the red car driver.

You did not manage to attend service that day and your family was late for church but you were thankful to God that you and your family are safe.
Go to Review A.

Review A: If I’m God, you might say that you’re destined to be saved from disaster by God’s grace. When you saw the (**) marking, I knew that you’re in danger of getting hurt. I use your wife (external influence) to signal you to back down but it is still your choice to decide otherwise. Since you are reading this review, you’ve chosen wisely and you are saved. I’m happy that you’ve taken the hint.

Review B: If I’m God, this is my will for you that you’ll be safe. You have chosen to live wisely and fully in control of yourself. I’m glad that you’ve followed the way I wanted.

Review C: If I’m God, you might say that it is not fair that I’ve destine you to die this way. When you saw the (**) marking, I knew that you’re in danger of getting hurt. I use your wife (external influence) to signal you to back down but it is still your choice to decide otherwise. When you saw the (*) marking, I already know that you’re dead and I regretted that you did not take the hint.

Conclusion:
The above scenario is synonymous to the blueprint of our life – as the person preparing this, I’ve transcended time. The essence of time within the blueprint has no effect on me and you might say that I’m present throughout the entire scenario; this is the omnipresent aspect of God. The markings (**) and (*) clearly shows that I’ve fore knowledge of what is going to happen; this is the omniscience aspect of God.

Just like the scenario above, I’ve wanted that you’ll reach church safely. However, there is a chance that you might not reach at all. Do I know before hand you’ll reach church or not? Frankly, I don’t but I’m sure I do when you make fatal mistakes (indicated by my markings) and I intervene to steer you out of danger, only if you will. This is FREE WILL to you.

Our lives are predestined, but we’re free to chose and do as we will within God’s blueprint. “…not wishing that any should perish, but…” – 2 Pt 3:9

“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end. And ye shall call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.” – Jer 29:11-12