In other words, if something is going to become reality, God knows it beforehand not through time but through an event in eternity. This is how God knows what will happen in the future, even before it happens. I have never believed that we can come to God on our own by relying on our intellectual understanding. Because we do not choose something based on our knowledge of it—we choose it because we want it—and, moreover, our knowledge of God is based on experience, not on knowledge acquired directly through logic or reasoning. This is how it works. God knows future events not just by knowing that these events will happen—which is what foreknowledge is—but by knowing them as if they have already happened. This is what we call predetermine.There is nothing that exists beyond the present moment, only an eternal Now in which God knows everything that has ever happened and every event that will happen. God is not confined to one space or time, and so He can see and hear and feel events happening as though they had already happened. God is intimately involved in all of creation, and so His actions and knowledge in this world are speaking and manifestation of Himself.While we may not have a full understanding of what God is doing, that doesn't mean that His intentions and plans are any less clear to Him. In fact, His determination to punish and save at the same time is a clear demonstration of His one, unified will. This is why faith in God is analogous to seeing Him through His own eyes – or, in other words, realizing that God is working on behalf of our best interests. When we say that God sees things differently than we do, we're not implying that He is somehow deficient. Rather, we're referring to His infinite wisdom and knowledge, which allow Him to see things in a way that we can't.