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Matronyx, I'm gonna have to tackle you on that one...
...May the Gods of TechJ forgive me for what I'm about to do....
Matronyx, to say that God chooses is erroneous. To choose, is to decide between options for which you can control only one. Can you see why it's erroneous? To assign the concept of choice to God is erroneous because God is the embodiment of everything. He doesn't need to choose. How do you choose to become or do something when you're already everything? Can you see the logical fallacy?
God is absolute Actuality. He contains absolutely NO potentiality. In other words, God doesn't have the potential to become something else. He is everything that can possibly exist (even things that don't yet exist). Therefore, to say that God chooses is fallacious.
Yes He knew that Adam would sin. Yes He knew that Lucifer would defy him. Yes he knew that the Children of Israel would sin against him a multiplicity of times. But where you made the mistake Matronyx, is to assign human properties to God (as owen rightly said). When the Bible says that God was vexed in his heart over the people's sin, do you think that God himself was actually vexed?
The human perception of God is limited, so we assign the countenance of wrath to His response of punishing the people for their sin. God isn't angry today, and happy tomorrow. He is EVERYTHING at the same time, everytime, forever. Our limited understanding of God is what leads us to believe that God can be angry at one point, and pleased at another. These are just HUMAN PERCEPTIONS. Human perceptions, like Mathematics, and science, help us to understand God. But they are still inherently and fundamentally flawed because they are based on a system of limits.
We cannot use a system of limits to describe God. God is infinite, and therefore, only infinity can describe him. Humans lack the language necessary to describe God (since no human language embraces infinity). So we should just accept Him for what he is and move on with life.
The truth of the matter Matronyx is that since God is the embodiment of all that is - He also embodies evil. Yes, I said it. Evil came from God too. He created Lucifer full knowing well that Lucifer would become the devil. Did God want this? Yes. He created humans full knowing well that they would sin against him. Did he want this? Yes. God created evil as much as he created good:
I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the LORD , do all these things.
[NIV]
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
[KJV]
- Isaiah 45:7