Blink of an Eye by Ted Dekker

Passive. Active. Force. Manipulation. Choice. Fate. Death. Freedom.

Does God mean for something to be? Is the only way to tell God’s will through hindsight? “Whatever will be, will be”?

For perfect free will, one must be not only all-powerful, but completely omniscient: to know all possible actions and outcomes and to be able to cause any one of those.

Humans tend towards arrogance, assuming that their knowledge comprises available knowledge of the world, and that if we seem to ourselves to be in control, we must truly be.

Though “love changes everything,” knowledge certainly helps.

Faith is not dependent on what we can comprehend with our own minds, but on the love of God.

If prayer influences God, does that make prayer powerful?

Can those who “love their neighbor” kill them? How much animosity, and how much humility, is required of Christians dealing with Muslims?

Read Blink of an Eye by Ted Dekker, the story of Seth the surfer-genius who receives a form of clairvoyance that enables him to see possible futures, when he meets a fugitive Saudi princess named Miriam. What do they learn about the world, each other, themselves, and God? If there’s a way to happily ever after, they will find it.

To God be all glory.