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I would like to start with the word infinite, which comes from the Latin word INFINITO. The word means, "Not Finished." Like the number that makes up the square root of two, it is a number, which has not yet finished being calculated. On this assumption, one can say that it is Infinite, not yet finished being calculated or unknown.
When we speak of an infinite God, it only stands to reason that we are talking of something that is unknown, only God can know itself totally, omniscient. We can not know something that is unknown. No matter how much one may think that one knows God, one will never know unless one becomes God. 1st Timothy 6: 16. Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen. Job 36: 26. Behold, God is great and we know him not. Neither can the number of his years be searched out.
One also might imagine that God ought to know everything, omniscience. If that is the case, that would mean that God already knew what we were going to do in the future, even before we were born. Jeremiah 1: 5. Before I formed thee in embryo I knew thee, before thou wast born I sanctified thee, I ordained thee a prophet to the nations. Now, if God already knows what we are going to do, before we do, that leaves us with no free will. To have free will one must have the option of at least two choices. If God already knows what we are going to do tomorrow, before we do, that leaves us with no option but to do what God already knew before. For example, if God knows that you are going down to the beach tomorrow, when tomorrow arrives you have no option but to go down to the beach, you would not have the choice to go up the mountain if you so wish, knowing that He knows. If we could do what God does not know, that action would make a liar of God, due to God's omniscience. What we do God already knew before. Therefore, that makes us God's imagination.
This is true if one can prove that God exists, to prove that one would have to be God. How can one believe in something that one does not or ever will know because of Its infinite nature? It is for this reason that we can think and say that we have a free will, due to the fact that we don't know God. If there is a God then I don't think that God will ever completely reveal Itself to anyone, graciously due to Its loving creative spirit in allowing us to share in His glory when we do Good. For this reason, that last single apple tree in the garden of Eden was prohibited (not to know everything 100 percent until the last day, we should be satisfied in digesting all the other trees fruits before asking the Lord to partake of the forbidden fruit). Thoughtfully planned, so we can go on thinking that we have a free will. Due to the fact that we have a free will, we have the choice either to do Good or to do evil; the choice is ours. That ultimately means, we create God in us. We think of how God should be and then try to imitate those qualities. We have to take responsibility for our actions; it’s a matter of life or death, if we make the wrong choice we will suffer the consequences of our action.
To help us in our quest for truth, generations before us have written down certain commandments, as a guiding light so that we will not repeat the mistakes they experienced. It only makes logical sense to obey them. The problem is some people do not believe in them. They have no faith in them, due to disgrace they are lost sheep not knowing the way out. They value their ignorant, selfish lives more than truth itself. They think that perversion through violence is the only way out. Most of us are just ignorant (which all of us are as children); but if we have support and are not mixed up in bad company because of good sense, learn quickly and learn to handle any situation. The qualities of a Saint are to forgive when in the position of power, after having suffered when not in power. If we all disagree, we will all be eyeless and toothless. I do not believe that a man can continuously kill without at some stage feel some kind of remorse. At the bottom of the worst man's heart, must lie a flicker of hope; for if that man is the last survivor, what chance is there to rekindle the flame of life?
One might try to argue and say, "Who created the universe? Is the universe not proof in itself that God exists?" Our mere ignorance is no excuse for the word God. There will always be an answer to how things were created, it is just ignorance from our part if we do not know how. I would prefer to use a less blasphemous word, "Lord" rather than God. It might be true that a Lord somewhere had the power to create our universe; but that would not make it God. We all have the ability to become Lords if we put our minds to Good use, for I know of none that are evil, preferring to call them devils, lost sheep or fallen angels.
One might believe that God is the creator of both Good and evil. That we do not have the free will to choose between Good or evil, that everything is predestined by God. Yet, those very same people try to enforce the Commandments onto them whom they believe are not chosen to practise them. What would be the reason for God to create a world were only His Good and evil will; is dominating everything? There would not be any Good reason; it would only be a hell for everybody. The fact that there is evil, proves that there is no one worthy to be honoured with the title of "God." Only when we all have voluntary (out of free will) understood and managed to do only Good through Jesus Christ our Lord and saviour, can we all be honoured face to face with the title, " We are who We are, the Good Almighty." We must be reminded that will only happen on the last day, which will take until eternity to reach, thereby creating immortality. We must have a sense of free will (choice of Good or evil) to make existence real, else we are nothing more than puppets on strings without conscience. Once we have freely made a responsible choice our lives are influenced by the ones who have made the same choice. It then may appear that our lives are predestined; but we make that choice to follow. The more one gets involved in the workings of that choice, the more mechanical it may seem. Yet, we still have the free will to turn back from that present course. The question would be asked, Would it be possible to jump off a sailing yacht in the middle of an ocean, to swim back to the port one left? The answer is yes; but our good sense would say no, not unless a passing vessel would be prepared to take us aboard. The question might remain; "what is Good?" Our Lord Jesus Christ will teach those who honestly search for Him, out of free will to trust in His ability to guide those who have chosen Him. Choose (create) Life or death, Jesus Christ or satan, it is your; "to be or not to be," birth right, that you have already proved in fulfilling. Are we destined to die? Only if we allow it. We have to think our way through this one. Think well. I personally believe that Calvinist doctrine as expressed below is thus false.
In antiquity, the theory of determinism was a feature of stoicism. In Christian theology, the Calvinist doctrine of predestination is deterministic. Quantum mechanics and the uncertainty principle lend support to free will.
Stoicism, Greek stoa, `porch,´ Greek school of philosophy, founded about 300 BC by Zeno of Citium. The stoics were pantheistic materialists who believed that happiness lay in accepting the law of the universe. They emphasized human brotherhood, denounced slavery and were internationalist. The name is derived from the porch on which Zeno taught.
Uncertainty principle or indeterminacy principle. In quantum mechanics, the principle that it is impossible to know with unlimited accuracy the position and momentum of a particle. The principle arises because; in order to locate a particle exactly, an observer must bounce light (in the form of a photon) off the particle, which must alter its position in an unpredictable way.
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