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To: MoeDeRooster

I have a question..

God creates someone, knowing before they are even created, that they will do something on a certain date. Can this person, do anything other, on that date?


73 posted on 12/19/2005 10:05:56 AM PST by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
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To: stuartcr
God creates someone, knowing before they are even created, that they will do something on a certain date. Can this person, do anything other, on that date?

I think your question presuppose a certain misunderstanding about how God sees things. He does not "know what is going to happen in the future". He does not "foresee the future" because there is no "future" from his perspective, nor is there a "past". He is outside time and time is subject to him, so he sees everything in an eternal present. The future is no more mysterious to him than the present is to us.

So asking if a person "can do something else" is meaningless. If he were to do something else, God would just see that instead. That doesn't mean that your person has no real choices; it means that God sees the future and the past as we see the present.

95 posted on 12/19/2005 10:47:33 AM PST by Campion ("I am so tired of you, liberal church in America" -- Mother Angelica, 1993)
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