Because your assumption is that we're all on rails and stuck doing what "god's plan" is. Why then does he ask us to pray if we have no influence? He also created us in his image (sovereign) meaning individual and capable of autonomy. The way you're describing God is actually based around an assumption that he isn't all that he actually is and is diminishing his glory. And as such, we're not describing the same creator, though we use the same name and words.
I believe you are free to choose, and being all knowing means God already knows exactly what you will choose. You can't 'surprise' God with your choices.
But just because He may KNOW what you will choose, how does that make it his fault that you choose evil or poorly?
A parent doesn't raise strong children by never letting them choose poorly, but by teaching them through their failures. And warning them at every chance prior. But not by stepping in. THAT is tyranny.
So when you say, "God's plan sometimes involves genocide."
Do you mean that God was specifically planning genocide? Like in 1942 since the beginning of time? Or do you mean, since everything is under God's plan that since genocides happen he accounts for it?
Do you believe we have free will and choice?
Because your assumption is that we're all on rails and stuck doing what "god's plan" is. Why then does he ask us to pray if we have no influence? He also created us in his image (sovereign) meaning individual and capable of autonomy. The way you're describing God is actually based around an assumption that he isn't all that he actually is and is diminishing his glory. And as such, we're not describing the same creator, though we use the same name and words.
I believe you are free to choose, and being all knowing means God already knows exactly what you will choose. You can't 'surprise' God with your choices.
But just because He may KNOW what you will choose, how does that make it his fault that you choose evil or poorly?
A parent doesn't raise strong children by never letting them choose poorly, but by teaching them through their failures. And warning them at every chance prior. But not by stepping in. THAT is tyranny.
What? Why are you talking about it being God's fault? He's not faulty. He's perfect. Genocide and all.
Just because you and I don't like genocide doesn't mean God is wrong.
So when you say, "God's plan sometimes involves genocide."
Do you mean that God was specifically planning genocide? Like in 1942 since the beginning of time? Or do you mean, since everything is under God's plan that since genocides happen he accounts for it?