Quantum mechanics, free will and election, oh my
Let's blow our minds on God’s Foreknowledge:
When we read in 1 Peter 1:1-2 that believers are “elect…according to the foreknowledge of God,” we might wonder how God’s choosing and our free choices fit together. Quantum mechanics offers a mind-bending analogy to challenge our simplistic views. Imagine every object in the universe having a “wave function,” a kind of blueprint describing its state. When objects share a connection—like a mutual origin—they can become “entangled,” instantly affecting each other across vast distances (non-locality), like two people holding hands across light-years.
Stranger still, experiments suggest entanglement can link past and future, meaning events in the future can influence the past in ways we can’t fully grasp. If God, at creation, knows every wave function and how they’re shaped by every free decision across time, His foreknowledge could encompass all history in a single moment—without negating our free will.
This isn’t to explain how God works but to show our human minds can’t fully contain His ways. We often assume we should understand everything about God, but a God we could fully explain would be too small. The real God, who knows us as His elect through His infinite foreknowledge, is far greater than our limited minds can fathom—inviting awe, not answers.
check out this great post from a super smart dude who has this stuff figured out: https://www.kirkdurston.com/blog/foreknow
When we read in 1 Peter 1:1-2 that believers are “elect…according to the foreknowledge of God,” we might wonder how God’s choosing and our free choices fit together. Quantum mechanics offers a mind-bending analogy to challenge our simplistic views. Imagine every object in the universe having a “wave function,” a kind of blueprint describing its state. When objects share a connection—like a mutual origin—they can become “entangled,” instantly affecting each other across vast distances (non-locality), like two people holding hands across light-years.
Stranger still, experiments suggest entanglement can link past and future, meaning events in the future can influence the past in ways we can’t fully grasp. If God, at creation, knows every wave function and how they’re shaped by every free decision across time, His foreknowledge could encompass all history in a single moment—without negating our free will.
This isn’t to explain how God works but to show our human minds can’t fully contain His ways. We often assume we should understand everything about God, but a God we could fully explain would be too small. The real God, who knows us as His elect through His infinite foreknowledge, is far greater than our limited minds can fathom—inviting awe, not answers.
check out this great post from a super smart dude who has this stuff figured out: https://www.kirkdurston.com/blog/foreknow
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