Catholic_Lady Wrote:Alasdair Ham Wrote:Yeah I get it. He doesn't have to wait to see it happen because it's already present to him. Doesn't change the fact that you will do what he determined to do and you will not do what he did not determine you to do.
It's not what "He determined I would do." It's what He's literally seeing me do at the moment that I'm doing it.
Listen, it's impossible to wrap our heads around it because we literally don't have the ability to comprehend time not being a factor. All we can do is explain it in words, but it will never truly make sense to us because we exist within time and can't imagine a dimension without it.
Right, he would only be predetermining what you do if, in addition to knowing what you will do advance, he set the initial conditions that resulted in your choice knowing what the outcome of those conditions would be in advance.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.