We are still to address the problem of Prophecy and its fulfillment. Bible does proclaim future and it certainly will come to pass. The question is how will this reconcile with the freedom of will of man? Since what is prophesied will come to pass, God has predestined it already and therefore free will of man is simply a myth. This conclusion is not mitigated even if we say that man lost his free will only after fall. God did know that Adam was going to disobey. Otherwise the predestination and election "before the creation of world" will be an absurdity.

Eph 1: 4 For he chose us in him before the creation of the world

On the basis of this argument we should assume that even Adam did not have the freedom of choice. It was decreed and predestined and in the first council of Trinity the covenant was sealed and all the future plans were laid out in detail to the minute. Thus we will have to conclude that even Adam did not have the freedom to choose. Adam was not responsible for his action. God was responsible. It was all God's doing.

This will also imply that God himself had no freedom. It was all decided in the first convenant between the trinity. Now that it is all fixed, even God cannot change it. God himself became his own prisoner, out of which he can never break out. True God is none other than Predestination. God himself created this monster and he will remain its prisoner to the end. What a pity.

Evidently such a God is neither sovereign nor free. The doctrine of predestination as taught by the reformation cannot explain the existence of any free willed persons outside of a unitary monadic God. Not even Trinity - three person in the substance of Godhead can be permissible. Jesus was not a free man. His obedience was not his own choice. It was predetermined. Thus it simply leads to nullification of his sacrifice and his death is no more an acceptable substitute for man. If there indeed was persons begotten or created then it is impossible for a freewilled God to see into the actions of a free willed person. Whatever theological jargon we may employ freewill of creatures and predestination are mutually exclusive.

If it really was possible for God to look into the future to see what decisions people will make, that would logically necessitate a predestinated, preprogrammed reality where people would be nothing more than programmed bio- robots. Though probably the bio-robot man was pre-programmed to think that he has freedom of choice and he is in control of every situation, that in itself should have been foreknown and pre-programmed. Free choices would not be an option for people to exercise. Are we fooling ourselves? Has God preprogrammed us to think that we have freedom of will? Could be. But then God is playing his biggest joke on us.

Most of the statements in the Bible are therefore a cruel joke of God. God has been mocking humans in various places when they were made responsible for their actions and also when God himself pretended that he did not know.

Look at the situation of tower of Babel:

Genesis 11: 5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building.

Sodom and Gomorrah:

Genesis 18: 20-21 Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."

Why was God so disturbed about the messages he received from the Angels that he has to come down to verify whether it was true or not. What laugh God was having when Abraham tried to mediate. He simply knew what was going on because he predestined it. Look at poor Abraham.

Jesus himself played along the same line fooling the depraved mankind with his calls of believing in him and then promising salvation and eternal life, knowing all the time to whom he is going to give them these great gift out of his great mercy. He also knew whom he was going to burn in hell. (Hebrews 2:9; John 6:44-69; John 3:1-18; Romans 3:25; Revelation 1:5; Hebrews 9:22; I Peter 1:18-19; John 12:44-46; Matt. 7:24-27; Matt. 11:6; Matt. 12:50; Matt 16:25-27; Matt 18:3-6; Luke 12:8,9; Luke 14:27; John 3:15-21; John 4:14; Acts 2:21; Acts 10:43; Rom. 9:30-10:1; Rom. 10:9-13; I John 4:13-15; I John 5:1-5; Rev. 22:16,17; I Tim. 2:4; II Peter 3:9; Acts 10:34,35; Gal. 3:27,28; Col. 3:11; Rom. 1:16,17.) Scripture even threatens those who believe that their named will be removed from the book of life and they willed be chewed out if they don't abide in him and persevere. (I Cor. 9:24-27; Rev. 3:5-6; John 15:1-6; Rom. 11:16-24.)

Look at this contradiction.

Heb. 4:3 Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said, "So I declared on oath in my anger, 'They shall never enter my rest.'" And yet his work has been finished since the creation of the world.

Thus if we presume total predestination, we are making the scripture to be a big lie and a hoax. How are we then going to interpret the predestination passages? Falling back into foreknowledge instead of foreordained or predetermined will not get us out of the problem. Exact foreknowledge - mechanical accuracy - is same as predestination.

Thus the only solution to the problem is to accept the presence of God with his freedom of will and man and other creatures who are his children with similar freedom of will in the realm of their existence. The realm of existence of man and God are different because God exists in a greater dimension being immanent in the creation itself. So God's choices in history are not predetermined concerning every detail, and man's choices in their lives are not predetermined. But God being transcendent and immanent is well able to direct the corporate evolution of history with supernatural actions without violating the freedom of every human being.

Predestinarians have no problem in explaining history as the exact execution of the program predetermined by the council of Trinity before the creation of the world. It is like a clock that will tick away according to the perfect mechanism as planned.

But if there are any - at least one - free agent in the universe, history cannot be predetermined. God cannot see the future as clearly and definitely because that would be allowing a free will God to see into the actions of free will person. Thus history will be the unfolding of interactions of free wills. From the secular point of view history is the result of self-centered humans and creatures interacting to assert themselves. In that process a dynamic balance is reached which are constantly being changed depending on the presence and directions of wills of each free will.

The kinetic theory of gases provides a simple illustration of the dynamic balance. Even though the direction and speed of each molecule in the gas is totally undetermined, the resulting system has a determinable temperature, pressure and volume. The three parameters determine the state of the gas system. This model gives us the idea of controlling the system externally by changing any one of the variables. Given additional energy, or additional pressure or change in volume, the system changes to a new state.

The same concept is encountered in Quantum mechanics for all events. Uncertainty is inherent in everything. It is this possibility of multiple states of possible solutions that form the backbone of Quantum Theory. An age-old problem of ancient sages was the problem of the knower and the known. In Quantum theory it takes up a new meaning. It is only in knowing that we create. An event takes place only when it is observed. In that process the observer is not a passive onlooker, but an active creator. History is being created by man with the creative power that God gave us.

If God did not predestined history, how are we to interpret the prophecies of the Bible? Apparently it will be the greatest support for the doctrine of predestination. How can God tell the future?

We have to look at the prophecies and its fulfillment based on the understanding that human history is the interaction of God and men. While man changes his action depending on the situation, God also changes his action depending on the human reaction. History is not a done deal. History is being created every moment both by God and man. I should include all freewilled creatures along with man. The inanimate objects behave under fixed rules. (Or do they? Are they moving along the rules fixed by the wills?)

Since each person is a free agent this becomes a highly unpredictable situation. In conclusion, biblical prophecy is simply a matter of God making predictions, then ensuring their fulfillment by controlling history through intervention without hindering human freedom. This exactly is the reason for the cross. Without human freedom, the incarnation and the cross become meaningless. God could have simply rewired and re-programmed man whenever he wanted to redeem mankind. After all he is the potter. This would have been the easiest and simplest way of doing it. What purpose did the great agony of cross do if everything was anyway predestined? It is therefore evident that the cross was an greatest affirmation of human freedom and the value God gave to the freedom of will of each individual person. God is treating us as his children. He wants us to return to him in love and call him Father, with our own free will. God would not even want to give man the slightest possibility of coercion. This is shown in the way God acts through history. Certainly it was not beyond God's power to show forth his might and power through signs and wonders to leave unequivocal evidence of his existence. Instead God left it for each individual to find his own way back. He left apologetics and evidences and not proofs. God left only road signs so that children will by their own volition will be able to return home. That makes a great God.

These guides and signs are given both externally and internally.

Heb 1:1 In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son,

This belief is confirmed by other scriptural passages. In these passages God "declares" the future, and it happens; and talks about "things that are not yet done,"

Isa 46:10 declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done

Isa 48:3 I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I showed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.

Isa 48:5 I have even from the beginning declared it to you; before it came to pass I showed it to you.

If these passages are any guide, history is not predetermined. But God has a plan, which he brings it to pass dynamically. Will of God interacts with the will of man and generates history which God and man together manipulates to its culmination. God intervenes in history in love and as a man controls it to bring salvation. God is a protector of human freedom and never he violates them. When they fall themselves into slavery, he intervenes and releases them from those bandages whether physical, mental or spiritual. But God is not a dictator. He is a liberator. It is this liberation of man by loving intervention of God without himself becoming a dictator that produces the history. Being himself immanent and at the same time transcendent God can effectively do this. His Omnipotence is that he can perform it without jeopardizing human freedom.