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To: kiriath_jearim
"A thousand ages in His sight // are like an evening gone"
(paraphrase of Ps. 90)

The teaching that God does not know the future is interestingly developed in Whitehead's thought. See especially Process and Reality which I read and failed to understand some 30 years ago. It seems to me that what Peter says about God's relation to time suggests that what we call the future is part of God's "now".

If I were going to work on this I'd re-read Whitehead first. My money is one its being non-Biblical and heretical. However, thinking that God beholds past present and future, so to speak, all at once, has its difficulties.

But then I never expected to understand God, and enjoying Him, not doping Him out, is what I hope for.

12 posted on 01/03/2005 9:02:07 AM PST by Mad Dawg (My P226 wants to teach you what SIGnify means ...)
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To: Mad Dawg
"...thinking that God beholds past present and future, so to speak, all at once, has its difficulties."

Name them.

41 posted on 01/03/2005 10:28:31 AM PST by Matchett-PI (Today's DemocRATS are either religious moral relativists, libertines or anarchists.)
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To: Mad Dawg
Past, present and future are all part of time as a serial continuum for our benefit. In the spiritual kingdom they are one, having no such distinction. God IS omniscient, period.
45 posted on 01/03/2005 10:32:36 AM PST by elephantlips
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