Matters of Future are difficult to understand. And it becomes highly susceptible to controversy if it is linked with Religion. Existence of god has been debated for years and the primary reason behind this is the fact that God is considered to be Omniscient. And hence naturally, if the god is omniscient, then in the first place he/she lets the unpleasant things happen.
The Hindu system of beliefs, which is mainly based on the teachings from Bhagvat Gita, considers god not as the master but as the Moderator of the universe. (In fact, the belief also suggests the existence of Multiple universes or Multiverse system). So as a moderator, even if God is omniscient, he/she still cannot make changes in the system.
This can be understood better by a simple analogy. God acts as the Programmer for this program of Universe. He/She has designed all the logic of time, as in the equation of Past, Present and Future. This equation is based on the transactions of the Doings of a person (aka the Karma). Every Karma has some impact on the person’s balance of Punya - seeds for future pleasure. So, in our analogy, this is equivalent of adding or subtracting to memory location (associated with a particular person). ‘You Reap what you Sow’, so whatever karma (good/bad) a person is doing and are recorded, has to be paid for (as reward or punishment).
Now in this whole system, god is just a programmer and acts as the moderator once the system is in place. Naturally, even if he/she knows what's next to happen (Remember, we said he/she designed the Algorithm), he /she can’t change the course of actions to take place.
So, we humans would also have been able to see the outcomes of our action, but alas, the difficulty of the Algorithm is way, way beyond our understanding.
One important thing to notice here is that, as the programmer cannot change the algorithm of the program after the program has started running, same way god would not be able to change the algorithm during run-time, entire system needs a reboot for that (Yes, you got it, back to Singularity before Big Bang)
But this system of universe is very complex, when one starts considering the inter-impacts of so called transactions of the ‘doings’. And, now add all the Ethics, Moral Code and End or Means theory (and what not) to this inter-impacts and we can just imagine how complex would it be. Our human minds have striven to identify this ethics and moral code and all, but who knows, there might be some other ‘Thing’ considered, which we have not thought of.
But, the great book which discusses all this, Bhagvat Gita, talks about the concept of Cosmic Significance. Cosmic Significance is the principle which says that the Universe (Or multiverse, if it exists) always progresses towards achieving a stage better than its previous stage and grows towards positivism as a whole. We can definitely believe in this learning of Gita, if not others and in fact, be a part of it, by being happy as a result of making someone happy !
(PS: Some views recorded in this answer are my personal and are based on my understanding of Bhagvat Gita.)
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