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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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To: stuartcr

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

If God is all-knowing then there are no limits to his knowledge. And again, “before” is something that has meaning to creatures that exist within time. It’s a mistake to project our finite limitations onto God.

“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?”

If God knows all then he will also know that the person in question is going to do something else. There are no choices that can escape God’s knowledge. You have really mixed two issues in your question. Does man have a free moral will to make choices? And does God always know what man chooses? By definition God knows the future and what man will choose. The extent of man’s free will is a subject that has been debated for centuries by both theists and secularists.


237 posted on 08/16/2010 9:27:59 PM PDT by Pelham (Islam, the mortal enemy of the free world)
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