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Free Will In Eldredge's What Did God Do Before?

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Eldredge poses that God saves us in every possible way, using the example of Jack saving Rose in the Titanic (Eldredge 71). He is partially correct, but his reasoning needs some clarification to make complete sense in the infinite nature of God. In order to comprehend how complete salvation is possible, the human timeline must be considered in tandem with infinity. Complete salvation is perfection. For example, a computer program can be perfect if it accomplishes all of its goals, the syntax is correct, and it executes in the most efficient manner possible; however, humans require free will in order to produce a real love as described by Eldredge (Eldredge 51). As a result, humans cannot be completely saved in our time because of the need for the choice of evil. There is hope: saved humans will become perfect in the infinite heavenly realm established by God in the death of our world. We will then be saved in every way possible. …show more content…
As proposed in “What Did God Do Before?” and expounded upon in “God: The Beginning of the Story,” God does not exist in the realm of time created specifically for humans (Frazee). An interesting question arises from this knowledge: because God, a completely spiritual being disregarding Jesus on earth, exists outside of time, do human spirits and souls exist outside of time also? Our spirits are obviously tied to our human bodies in some fashion, otherwise humans would just be mindless machines. Unfortunately, this is not something humans themselves can discover, but for the sake of argument, it will be assumed that they do. If human spirits exist outside time, it does not matter when they are completely saved, only that they are at some point. Thus, we can be completely saved in our lifetimes as Eldredge previously proposed (Eldredge

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