You can't honestly debate anything I said when you begin by dishonestly attacking a statement from your imagination.
Maybe you should commit to introspection and ask yourself why you see God as an evil puppet master.
Because I never said that.
I'm responding to your post because aggressive people feigning righteousness have already lost any argument they propose. You're near that but not quite as young in thought or presentation.
Everything I observed is garnered from the scriptures.
You and the other one demonstrate what was observed in my post. You believe in the Bible but you can't accept what God tells you about himself.
Look it up. God tells you Satan has no power but what God allows.
God is Sovereign over his creation.
If the fall wasn't predestined, the tree that would give Adam and Eve the same consciousness as God , if that knowledge was forbidden them, would not have been created by God.
And don't forget. The Christian aspires to Christ consciousness. The mind of Christ.
Christ, Emmanuel, was God.
In the beginning.
Was the word. And the word was with God and
the word was God.
Read the Old Testament.
I dare you.
We, as people, are already possessed by God consciousness.
Only everything we do that is labeled sin, is everything God did that we label divine righteous power, authority, and retribution.
Do you not know what it is that we ask for Salvation from? The human nature God predestined us to have because he did not forgive the first innocent mistake, due to their innocence, Adam and Eve made. When they listened to the serpent God let enter Eden.
How is Heaven paradise when God's angels sinned against him?
How was Eden paradise when our adversary, not God's, was allowed to enter Eden? And if it wasn't by God's planning, how did the serpent know of that singular forbidden tree so as to slither into it and lead Eve to eat of its God given fruit?
Salvation? Is asking to be saved from God. But, as he tells you, and it isn't Calvin's invention that he borrowed from someone else, it's God's own words. No one comes to Jesus (God), unless God calls them.
"Elect of God."
And those one's? Are the ones who have their name written in God's Lamb's Book of Life.
And that book? God tells you in his word. Was written before the foundation of the world. Before God created the world.
Before Eden. Before the tree of knowledge. Before the fall.
God wrote the names of those he'd call to salvation before the fall.
Deuteronomy 12:30-32
"For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
Genesis 3:22 Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil;...
If Satan was cast down at that point, how would he know about the fruit of that tree?
Remember. God gave Satan his permission to destroy Job's life, including killing his family, so that Omniscient Sovereign God would win a wager with Satan.
Satan returned to Heaven after he was cast out.
Was Job the first victim of such a test? Or was Adam and Eve?
What would the Lambs Book of Life mean if not for the fall?
You believe in God. But you try to rework to your satisfaction what he tells you of himself.
Acts 4:27–28
for truly in this city there were gathered together against your uholy servant Jesus, vwhom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, 28
to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.
Proverbs 16:9 A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps.
The human proposes. God disposes.
We think we have free choices to do as we wish. But God tells us even that is our delusion. When we follow God's leading, we're following his plan.
What did God tell Jeremiah in chapter 29:11?
John 9:41 "Jesus said to them, 'If you were blind, you would have no sin; but since you say, '
We see,' your sin remains.'"
Get it?