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redredwine on scored.co
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Great video!
I have a sincere question based on your post title, something which I often think about: Do Catholics have a position on how a timeless and all-knowing and infallible God can "expect justice and righteousness" and instead get something else?
Do Catholics have a position on how God can be surprised?
Perhaps God allows these events, injustices and betrayals to play out exclusively for our benefit, for our education.
So God wasn’t surprised. He is omniscient, so He couldn’t be surprised that the Jews would largely reject Him. He knew good and well they would going into it. That being said, He is by nature omnibenevolent and love itself, so He still did it. He saw good in the Israelites and raised many to be Patriarchs, Prophets and Saints, even though a majority rejected Him. And His plan was to open the Covenant up to the Gentiles once the Jews rejected His Son. Again, He knew this from the beginning. He also knew Lucifer and his fallen angels would reject Him from the beginning and created them anyways as well. Despite what some people think, Catholicism does teach predestination. It’s a natural consequence if God’s omniscience. But Catholicism teaches that everything and everyone God creates is because He sees some good in it and it pleases Him. So Lucifer, the fallen angels, and the unbelieving Jews that reject God were all pleasing and loved by God to be created, even though God knew they would reject Him and end up in Hell.
I have a sincere question based on your post title, something which I often think about: Do Catholics have a position on how a timeless and all-knowing and infallible God can "expect justice and righteousness" and instead get something else?
Do Catholics have a position on how God can be surprised?
Perhaps God allows these events, injustices and betrayals to play out exclusively for our benefit, for our education.
I'd sincerely love to hear your thoughts on this.