06-15-2015, 03:18 PM
(06-15-2015, 02:42 PM)Benton Wrote: And God loved him anyway. Hitler was a horrible being, but that doesn't mean he wasn't loved along with everyone else.
And knowing someone is going to do something (omniscience) is not the same thing as doing it. Knowing they will make the wrong choice doesn't mean He doesn't love them or make Him any less omnipotent. Which is not the same thing as omniscient.
I think your confusion is you're overlapping the two terms.
Omniscient means he knows everything. Omnipotent means he can do anything. One doesn't mean he has to do the other.
You and God go to see a movie together. You haven't seen any previews or read any reviews, don't have any idea what the movie is about. The possibilities of what will happen in the movie are endless to you. God has already seen the movie, knows all the plot twists, has seen the ending and knows how everything turns out because he wrote, directed, produced, and starred in the movie. To God, there aren't any surprises because he knows what is going to happen because he has seen it before. No matter how many times you two watch the movie it is always the same because the characters always "choose" the same choices.
