He doesn’t need my/your/anyone’s consent to be the kind of love he is, but he wants it (so that I/we willingly receive his love), and he won’t violate consent.
Consent isn’t what saves you, although it is a precondition. For example, if you sign a consent form at the doctor’s office, but they never treat you for that fatal illness…you gonna die. Signing the consent form is a precondition for receiving treatment, but it isn’t what saves you.
The only way you’re going to get treatment without signing a consent form is if you are unable to consent (this is not a justification of infant baptism, which also doesn’t save… nor does any other baptism… and it’s very probable that no denomination claims that it does).
What’s the diagnosis? Alienation. What’s the remedy? Reconciliation. The treatment is eternal (and foretold and demonstrated in time). You just have to sign the consent form.
Nobody is born into the kingdom, and nobody receives treatment without consent. Unless, of course, they are unable to consent.
He only knows who is going to consent because he co-created it with them/us. He’s already and still (t)here—he doesn’t have to look back/forward. Dictatorship is a weakness, not an omnipotence.