"GOD'S FOREKNOWLEDGE NOT A DETERMINIG CAUSE...."

Respecting the foreknowledge of God, let it not be said that divine omniscience is of itself a determining cause whereby events are inevitably brought to pass.
"Our heavenly father has a full knowledge of the nature and disposition of each of his children, a knowledge gained by long observation and experience in the past eternity of our primeval childhood; a knowledge compared with which that gained by earthly parents through mortal experience with their children is infinitesimally small. by reason of that surpassing knowledge God reads the future of child and children, of men individually and of men collectively as communities and nations; he knows what each will do under given conditions, and sees the end from the beginning. His foreknowledge is based on intelligence and reason. he foresees the future as a state which naturally and surely will be; not as one which must be because he has arbitrarily willed that it shall be" ( Great Apostasy, pp. 19,20)

 There are many who profess belief that as God is omnipotent, all that is is according to his will. such a supposition is unscriptural, unreasonable, and untrue.

  Let not ignorance and thoughtlessness lead us into the error of assuming that the Father's foreknowledge as to what would be, under given conditions, determined that such must be. it was not his design that the souls of mankind be lost; on the contrary it was and is his work and glory, " to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man."

"our lord's admonition to men to become perfect, even as the father is perfect ( Matthew 5: 48) cannot rationally be construed otherwise than is implying the possibility of such achievement. plainly, however, man cannot become perfect in mortality in the sense in which God is perfect as a supremely glorified being. it is possible, though, for man to be perfect in his sphere in a sense analogous to that in which superior intelligences are perfect in their several spheres; yet the relative perfection of the lower is infinitely inferior to that of the higher. A college student in his freshman or sophomore year maybe perfect as freshman or sophomore; his record may possibly be hundred percent on the scale of efficiency and achievement; yet the honors of the upper  classman are beyond him, and the attainment of graduation is to him remote, but of assured possibility, if he do but continue faithful and devoted to the end." ( Jesus the Christ )