I do not really understand how man's freewill agrees with the statement that God cannot be pleased or hurt. However, the mention of freewill strikes a chord. And I agree with you that we are the architects of our lives.Saint Bruno wrote: ↑11 Dec 2020, 01:06 I think the author's stance that God cannot please nor hurt agrees with the freewill he has given unto mankind. Therefore, we are the architects of our life. We are the ones prompted to love and please each other. An exception would be natural disasters, which is a discussion for another day. But can we really know everything about God?
I have a theory (it's how I kinda understand God's plan for every man in relation to freewill). So how can we say that God has a plan for every man and knows what every person would do, and still claim that man has freewill? I theorize that God maps out each life, including major routes and sub-routes. Some routes are 'bad' and some are 'good', some lead to dead ends (death), but throughout the map, there's always a route that links the bad and good. Now God doesn't choose which route you take, but he knows all the available routes on your map (a very big map of a zillion routes). He leaves the choice to us, and that is freewill. Every day we wake up, there are a million routes for us to take (the all-knowing God knows all of them and He knows the sub-route that each route leads to), but it's entirely up to us choose which route to take. This is how I merge the idea that God knows what I could do (good or bad) with the idea that I actually have freewill.
I hope this makes sense . I just felt like sharing.
In response to your last question, we cannot know everything about God. We just have to work by faith and with what little we can grasp.