God knows

One man's thoughts on Easter:
Since I was knee high to a grasshopper, I've been reminded an untold number of times of God's omniscience ~ him with the big voice and handsome beard.  I've been led to believe that everything the scary old fella' has in store for us is pre-ordained.  Apparently He's had it all worked out for years, decades, millennia and not just for us human beings either, poor diminished weasels that we are, but for the whole world and everything in it ~ clouds, earwigs, medicine, door knobs, rocks and liver, sex and bunions.  You name it, it's been part of the master plan since the beginning of time, that's what I've been told anyway.

But I'm not so sure because on a human level it doesn't make a great deal of sense.  On any level actually.
You see the trouble with knowing everything and being able to foresee everything that's going to happen to everyone and everything would be boring.  It might be fun for a few minutes but that's about it, from then on it would be unutterably, brain-numbingly tiresome.  There would be no surprises, no adventures, no awesome discoveries to make also, crucially, He would know everything about himself and would therefore understand how He was going to react in every situation.  He would have no secrets from himself and consequently no interesting character traits to exploit.  He would be flawed by the very fact of being flawless.
If there is a God, and there probably might-be, right?  And if, as we're being asked to believe, it was this God who created heaven and earth and all the other bits and bobs.  And if we're also to believe He's the Uber Creator, the Mega-Boss in charge of everything, it would be reasonable to assume he would have foreseen just how boring it was going to become and factor in, I don't know, a loose canon, a fly in the ointment, something over which He would have absolutely no control to spice things up, to circumvent the likelihood of going insane, to keep him on his celestial toes as it were.
Perhaps for just that purpose, He might have invented something called “free will” and distributed it freely amongst the human race.  Then again, if that is the case he would have foreseen how easily “free will” could be manipulated by the powerful for their own ends and decide it wasn't a very good idea.
And perhaps, if Jesus is God's son and everything really is pre-ordained and Jesus actually communicated with his dad then it's reasonable to assume he would have known he wasn't really going to die.  He would have known whether he was going to rise up or remain in that cave with the boulder firmly blocking the entrance.  And whether or not humanity was worth saving in the first place.
I’m fairly sure about that . . .

© Rivenrod 2015