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Quote by: Josh  Sorry to drag the thread back up, but I just want to add that the concept of omniscience holds ramifications not only for human's free will, but also for god's free will and his omnipotence.
To be truly omniscient, it isn't enough for god to know merely what you or I will be doing in the future, he must also know what he will be doing in the future. This raises the question, can god escape doing what he sees himself doing? Because if at any point god cannot escape what he sees in the future, he loses his omnipotence and free will. If he can, he loses his omniscience.
So a god that is both omniscient and omnipotent is contradictory. | Not if God is eternal and not within time (e.g. Boethius in Consolations of Philosophy Book V: "eternity is the complete possession of an endless line enjoyed as one simultaneous whole").
"...all life is an experiment. Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge." -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr |