06-18-2015, 05:48 PM
(06-18-2015, 04:14 PM)Benton Wrote: Sooooo close.
It's not a conclusion, it's knowledge of an event after it's happened. Like you said, this "is based upon what he knows I did in the future after I did it." You're looking at it as A, B, C. A is your thought of an action, B is the action, C is the repercussion. You look at it that way because that's how you understand time. A-C.
He doesn't. Your A, B, C all happened, to Him, at the same time.
Get a rope and hold it horizontally in front of you between your two hands. The rope near your left hand represents your past and to the right your future, the center is the present.
Now make a loop.
Where the loop intersects is where your past and future intersect the present. That point represents God's knowledge of what you did before you did it while in the present. That is nonlinear thinking.
Arguing God is omniscient but chooses not to know the future is like holding the rope out in front of you and pretending the right half of the rope doesn't exist. That is linear thinking.
Also, if a god is omnipotent the god is also omniscient. You can't be omnipotent if you're not omniscient, also. So if someone calls a god omnipotent they are omniscient by definition. Whereas a god can be omniscient, but not omnipotent.
