Recently I have been reflecting on the views of Benedict de Spinoza, and attempting to understand his particular views concerning pantheistic monism. Essentially Spinoza was of the belief that there is no dualism between God and the world. Automatically I assumed this would contradict God's sovereign control, although having thought about it, it may possibly be the opposite. With this philosophy as merely inspired (rhetorical) thought, it has provoked me into thinking perhaps God is capable of predicting and ordaining certain future events because He is capable of working in the world and bringing certain events to pass when the time is needed. For example, God could inspire the Old Testament writers to prophesy certain events and then He could simply ensure that those events occurred at the right time. Granted this does defy the laws of 'time' and our human perceptions/measurements of it, but this 'open-theistic' theology does surprisingly run congruent with Spinozian thought if we are to say that "the present" does not exist, or exists only as an imaginary or theoretical point. The present moment is always in dissolution, ever divided between the past (into which it is always disappearing) and the future (which it has not yet achieved). That God is in complete control of a regressive and progressive state of 'the present'.
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