[muawiyah]

Einstein repeatedly claimed that God does not "play dice" with the universe.

More recently, we have observed that God does "play dice" with the universe, and throws them where even He can't see them.

It's not static, and we can only know an approximation of what happens over long periods of time by observing what's going on now, but even that has a large degree of uncertainty.

Gnosticism assumed we could "know", with certainty, everything ~ particularly God's will (or even the will of the gods).

Being a Christian and not a Gnostic means rejecting gnosticism.

[CarolinaGuitarman]

"Einstein repeatedly claimed that God does not "play dice" with the universe."

Yes, he disliked the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. He later changed his mind, although he wasn't happy with it. You're jumping from one disconnected point to another.

"More recently, we have observed that God does "play dice" with the universe, and throws them where even He can't see them."

We have?

"It's not static, and we can only know an approximation of what happens over long periods of time by observing what's going on now, but even that has a large degree of uncertainty."

So all knowledge claims are equally valid, because we can't have 100% certainty?

"Gnosticism assumed we could "know", with certainty, everything ~ particularly God's will (or even the will of the gods)."

Science doesn't assume we know with certainty anything about the physical world. It does provide a way for us to have a high degree of confidence in our conclusions though. That is of course the reason we acquire knowledge in the first place. To weigh what our senses tell us and to use our reasoning abilities to make real-world decisions. Your brand of post-modernism would leave people incapable of doing this.

"Being a Christian and not a Gnostic means rejecting gnosticism."

And that has some meaning to me, because?