"It's a misconception, a misunderstanding of what infinity is. To say that God lived a billion years ago, a billion years ago, a billion years ago is wrong. "Why?" — God is generally beyond the flow of time. He has no past and no future, He always has the present. When God the Father says to His Son: "This day have I begotten Thee" (Psalm 2:7)

, "now" means "now," because He always has the now. The Lord stands above the stream of time and sees everything at once. That is why He foresees the future. The only one who knows the future in its entirety is God. For Him, it is not the future. He does not calculate in advance and does not guess what will happen in the future. Demons try to calculate the future with calculations, methods similar to scientific forecasts.

"And why doesn't God calculate anything?" "We are limited by time, and He is not limited. God stands above time, so there is no need for analysis at all, He knows, and does not assume. — No, I'm talking about science. — I'm not saying anything bad about science specifically. I said about demons, I am not going to sin on science, it may or may not count something.

There is some possibility that something will come true or not. And demons act in a similar way, but you know what else they use? They use the Revelation that is known to us. They know the Bible, some of the Word of God, and they have plans of their own. Unlike science, they can make their own plans. They have long-range programs, for example, to arrange some kind of war. They will set people against people.

They can reveal this plan to a fortune teller, who will say: there will be a war here and there. War may or may not be, why? Because in addition to Satan's desire, everything depends on two other factors: the free will of man and the will of God. The ruler will repent, and war will not come, or God will not want – and, for example, all the guns will fail. And it turns out that all the fortune teller's predictions were in vain.

— It turns out that nothing depends on the will of a person? "A person can choose good or evil. "And what about the order in war?" "Which order to issue also depends on the will of the person who gives this order, it depends on him, right? How it depends on him: to execute the order or not. Thus, God is beyond time, and since He is outside of time, then He is beyond change.

God says, "I am the Lord, I do not change; therefore you, the sons of Jacob, have not been destroyed" (Mal. 3:6). Since He is timeless, unchanging, it means that He never lies, He always keeps His word. His words are unchangeable. And Allah says in the Koran: "I change my words as I want, I will, I will say this, I will will." The true God never does that. "What can you say about Nineveh's repentance?" Does God break His word?

God does not change the word, His definitions are the pure Truth. The Lord says that fornication must be punished. But if a person repents, he has escaped the action of God's punitive definition. So is Nineveh. Punishment was promised to robbers and villains, and they would definitely receive it. But Nineveh repented, ceased to be a sinner, therefore, in fact, the punishment did not fall on her.

It is unjust to inflict punishment on those who repent. It must be remembered that here are not mechanical laws that do not look at man, but the free good will of God. Imagine, for example, I can say to an alcoholic: if you continue to drink, I will not pour you a glass. But then the man stopped drinking, five years passed, he came, chilled in the cold, from the street, and I poured him a glass of vodka so that he would not freeze. Did I break my word? No, he did not. "Why?" "He's no longer a drunkard.

The logic is very simple: if you don't do this, then this will happen. This is what God says: if I come to a nation or a city, I will bring a great calamity upon them as a punishment for their sins, but if the people reform and do good, I will postpone the punishment. If I want to bring some good to a people, and they begin to do evil, then I will postpone the good that I wanted to do.

Here it is not God who has changed, but what has changed to which His action is applied. If a sinful person is converted and begins to do good, repents, confesses, asks forgiveness from God, then all iniquities will not be remembered to him. But, on the other hand, if a righteous man did righteous deeds and, trusting in his righteousness, did evil, thinking that the cup of good deeds would outweigh the cup of good deeds, God will say that no good deeds will be remembered to him on the day of punishment, and he will perish for his iniquity.

"Does God approve of evil and is the cause of it?" — No, I don't. - Imagine a situation - a fascist is going to shoot small children - where is God? Does he approve of this case? "A fascist shoots himself, it's his choice, God may or may not interfere with him. Again, why? He looks at the condition of the children. If they die now, where will their souls go?

If they go to Him, He will not interfere. They will go to the Lord and become saints and rise bodily. And if so, then the problem of death will be destroyed, and murder is not terrible for them. But God can also protect them. Why? Because they, for example, are not baptized. The Lord wants to save them so that they can be baptized later, if He knows that they will be baptized, He will save them from death.

He can also keep them alive because he knows that one of these children will grow up to be a great righteous man who will save many other people. But in all cases, God does not force a German to shoot innocents. "Are the soldiers to blame if they followed orders?" "They could not have carried out the order. An order that is contrary to God's law cannot be obeyed.