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To: stuartcr

“If God’s knowledge is not restricted by time, why would He not know what choices a person will make, even before He creates them? “

He would know. It’s inherent in being outside of the constraints of time.

“Why wouldn’t people still be responsible here on earth, even if God is the author of their evil actions?...Just because someone chooses an evil act, that doesn’t mean that God didn’t know about it before, does it?”

You conflate knowledge of evil with responsibility for committing evil. God can have knowledge of evil without being its cause. But if God is the author of someone’s evil act then the person cannot be said to have chosen evil, the responsibility would fall on its author.

“Maybe evil doesn’t even exist to God? Perhaps, it’s just a word we use to descibe behavior.”

That wouldn’t be true for the God of the bible. You’ll have to tell us if that is true for the God you believe in.


223 posted on 08/16/2010 12:30:14 PM PDT by Pelham (Islam, the mortal enemy of the free world)
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To: Pelham

Then He must know what choices a person will make, even before He creates them? Right?

Assuming God knows all, and cannot be wrong...if God knows someone will do something at a certain time and place, is it possible for them to do something else?

Since I believe that there is only one God, and you say God cannot author evil, perhaps, as I said, God doesn’t recognize evil as we do, He just views it as human behavior.


229 posted on 08/16/2010 4:34:13 PM PDT by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different)
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