An Outline

I started writing a post to attempt to summarise my current position on the nature of free will. It did not stay within reasonable boundaries. Instead, what I ended up with seems to be the germ of something much larger than I anticipated. This is the outline:

Its current title is:
The Consequences of Volition - An Exercise in Deductive Reasoning

The outline's a little rough but:

1. Father God’s Purpose: To create more children for Himself who would dwell in harmonious relationships with Him and with each other.
• Who is God?
• What position was God in before all of creation?
• What as the impetus that moved God to create?
• What is relationship?
2. Design: Gave us volition, gave us influence and has a plan for every area of life. He made us after His own image, with full personality and ways to know the world. 
• Content for Life: 
• God’s Design of the Natural World
• God’s Plan for Society
• The Image of God
• Personality
• The Will
• The Weight of Choice
• Influence
• Power
• Meaning
3. Teaching: He made us without any knowledge to begin with, that we would grow in our understanding. How do we figure out how to make choices?
• Ways by which we acquire information:
• Natural Senses
• Language
• Faith
• Knowledge Acquisition
• Emotions
• Reason
• Wisdom Acquisition
• Humility
• The ability to make the right decision.
4. Sin: Origin, Consequences, Spread, Fullness
• We chose disobedience: Consequences, Responsibility and Sinful Nature
• Impact of Sin on Design in relation to power.
• The laws we cannot change
• The laws we can change
• Impact of Sin on Teaching
• The loss of wisdom: Disobedience and Pride
• The corruption of emotions and reason
• The assault on truth: Deceitful Information
• The Fullness of Sin
• Self-destruction of a society
• Judgement by a Holy and Angry God
• Thoughts on Antediluvian Society
5. Mercy
• The robust designs of God: Allowances and Compensation
• The redemption plan
• The Role of Revelation and Prophecy
• The societies that survived
6. Discipline
• Distinguishing Consequence from Punishment
• Distinguishing Punishment from Destruction
• Subjecting Creation to Futility
• The supremacy of God’s goodness
7. Redemption by the Son
• The cure: Breaking the power of Sin
• The sovereign choice of God’s methods
• The significance of the Son
• Amazing Grace
8. Empowerment by the Spirit
• What is the primary role of Holy Spirit?
• Inviolable Will
• Completing the work that the Son initiated
9. Faithful/Church: 
• Salvation: Saviour
• Restoration: Lord
• Cooperation between God and His people
• The Role of Prayer: The Lord’s Prayer
• The failures of the church
• The overwhelming power of Grace
10. Apostasy
• A matter of the heart: Blaspheming Holy Spirit
• Full corruption of every source of information
• Full corruption of every knowledge acquisition
• When Grace is insufficient
• Hardening of Hearts
11. The Last Judgement
• The Holiness of God in finality on the disobedient
• The Wrath of God
12. Restoration
• What becomes of the faithful?
• Perfect Fellowship and Society
• Back to the original Design
• More discovery and content to explore

It will not cover everything in this world, but it encompasses so much that I cannot help but want to write out what I feel will communicate the power of this perspective.

Perhaps I will follow this up with a Testimony, which will fundamentally be of an inductive approach. The last great document will be an Apologia, which will be an application of abductive reasoning. The first document will serve as a clarification for me as I wade through my experiences and other worldviews in the latter two documents.

Update: I have set up a satellite blog - 'The Consequences of Volition' in order to expand on these ideas properly. I will probably take a break from writing on this blog for awhile so that I can work on putting all the ideas I have been given into words.