Posted by Jaypeeto [Jaypeeto] on March 27, 1999 at 06:03:03 {Hq/lZhRVmkkb2d4iEtLEMWt/CPYT8orz2}:
In Reply to: **The Nature of the Divine posted by Kindred on March 27, 1999 at 05:51:18:
your interesting comment:
"from what I've always heard (but I'm in the under thirty crowd), God
could have forseen "The Fall" if he wanted to, but out of respect for
the free will of his creatures, he chose not to know.
Kinda different
from saying he had no way of knowing."
They say THIS about the FATHER!
Now, we Trinitarians say that the WORD/SON,
in his SPIRITUAL NATURE, DOES have the capability of knowing the "day and the hour" of the
end,
though as our human and glorified "high priest,"
He does not avail himself of that knowledge,
but "lives out" the mystery of the Redemption as priest until the End of The Age.
JWs, however, latch onto that "not knowing the day and the hour" of his, as proof that he can't be Deity, then TURN RIGHT AROUND and APPLY this Principle to the FATHER HIMSELF!!!
Amazing!
Jaypeeto