Today I was thinking about my brain vs AI and started wondering how much ability God had provided for mankind, and if he had to withhold some gifts and mental power or something in order to maintain control of His creation. And this puzzle led me to a realization that I believe is accurate and a great clue about how and why people are included in God's life forever.
Basically I concluded that God really gave it all when he created humans, I mean in general, not in a garden chapter sense, and all of his creative power was spent infinitely on our life and existence as people, with literally nothing withheld. And his ongoing power and genius that in any way was "saved for later," includes us in that "later" so is still not withheld. So if he creates another world after heaven, his people will still be around to worship him for it.
Pretty quickly, this suspicion had to include Jesus and the cross as the main means that God kept us safe from any potential attempts at domination and rogue escape or disobedience, hostile takeovers, or any other foolish thing that beings have in fact tried to do.
God provided humanity with an all powerful loving king, himself, who died on the cross to finish a system where each of us is dependent on him for forgiveness and a restored status as obedient good people. We will glorify him and treat each other according to heaven's happy standards, and outside of that, people will be in outer darkness and prohibited from ever ruining anything for anyone else again. The dear cost of love involved and the fact that the sacrifice was his son who is also God, is part of the non-negotionability of it.
So I really think this is a new spin on "nothing withheld." The bible says God did not spare his own son. But I just want to say that is intrinsically connected to another way that God did not spare himself as a creator. What else does this mean. It means predestination.
