7396	Forums / Theology Forum / The Snake Pit	on: May 30, 2007, 06:14:17 PM
I believe God does possess an intimate knowledge of our hearts and thoughts, I do not believe though that it necessary to assert that God orders our every thought word and deed. Yes God has given us a will of our own. We are free to choose what we are most pleased with. But God also has orders every situation so that the prophecies of scriptures are are fulfilled to the exact time and detail. The situations come about by mans moral decisions. \"God works all things for our good and His glory.\" He does what ever pleases Him. Who can resist His will? God knows the number of our hairs, but our sins outnumber even our hair. And God knows our sin better than we do. Because God sees our souls. He knows us better than we know ourselves. We cannot see spirits, but God can. So that most all of His knowledge of us is unknowable to us. He made us and He knows us individually. Because He made us we are dependent for every breath we take. God knows the number of breaths we take, and He orders them. He turns us back to dust by His word so that He orders the length of our lives to the minute. He made us finite so that the knowledge of His will can only be understood according to what we are able to know. By limiting our ability He determined our circumstances that formed our moral limits. We did not choose to be born. We do not choose to die. In between our birth and death our choices are determined by the ability He gave us to along with our weaknesses and strengths that He made us with.So that even tho we have personal responsibility in our moral choices, yet our choosing is cause by our desires, which are determined by Gods giving us the ability to think a certain way and not another way. Our spiritual ability comes from the Spirit and from Christ righteousness so that we are totally dependent on Him for all are good works. Our works are only good because we have have Christ righteousness. The corrupted part comes from us. So in this way God determines our moral choices even tho we are free to choose.