Foresight and Predestination

ABC of Faith. Anticipation –
1) knowledge by God from the eternity of the real and conditional future;
2) knowledge by a person of the possible or the real future by the gift of vision;
3) knowledge by a person of the possible or the real future by the suggestion of fallen spirits;
4) probabilistic knowledge of the future, based on intuition or life experience.

Predestination –
1) the Divine solution, subject to mandatory execution;
2) a decision that implies mandatory execution.
Is a person free in his actions or is everything already predetermined by God?
In this very question there is a shade of cunning: it is enough to agree with universal predestination and then there is no need for any human efforts: why do good, why strive for perfection Everything has already been decided for us. However, we are well aware that in our relations with people we are free to do good and evil, love and hatred; we are also free to live with God, not to notice or reject Him.
God is not conditioned by the space and time which is created by Him material world. God sees our world in the palm of age. He sees both our past and the present and the future “simultaneously”. God He sees and knows, but does not violate our freedom. Knowing and planning – essence Things are different. The Lord knows all the endless options for the development of events, Although the person is free to choose his only a variant of behavior in these events, which is closer to him.

God is present and operates in the spiritual and material worlds. He present in all events, blessings or allowing them. Exists many factors, causal relationships that affect our actions, their absurdly denying, Christianity denies only their fatality. In the material world of God, strict physical laws are established, but also This does not deny the influence of God and on him (no meteorite by chance in The Earth will not fall.)
Only God is free, we have a certain freedom, the greatest in the field of moral responsibility and the life of the spirit (religious life). Freedom is the greatest gift of God, hence the colossal responsibility, up to eternal torment. If nothing from us depended, what would the Last Judgment await us for?
Thus, there is no inevitability, a person is really free in certain limits, and these limits are very wide - from the infinite A sinful life to an infinitely righteous life. We can find more and more freedom through obedience to God, His grace, through deification, A connection with God.

How does God influence the world he has created?
God influences events in the world in a manlike, the Holy Scripture gives us examples of how God carries out His vision:
• giving a person the choice of purpose and meaning of life (Deuteronomy 30:19-20);
• allowing a person to show his even God-fighting will (Genesis 3; Matt. 23:37);
• Calling mankind to salvation (Ezekiel 33:11; Matthew 11:28-29);
• Changing His intentions in relation to the wicked in the event of their repentance (Jeremiah 18:7-10, Jonah 3);
• fulfilling certain prayers (Luke 1:13; Matthew 15:28; Acts 10:4)
• changing the actions of the established physical laws, for the sake of good The people who are faithful to Him (Exodus 14:21; 21:13):4th 4:20:6; Johns 11:43-44).
• incarnated for the salvation of men (Luke 2:11; Jn. 4:42);
• Leading the world to the end defined by His plan (Revelation 21:1).