RE: Better reasons to quit Christianity
August 20, 2012 at 9:04 pm
(This post was last modified: August 20, 2012 at 9:05 pm by Undeceived.)
(August 20, 2012 at 8:06 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Suppose that this precognitive god, experiencing the future as though it were the present, experienced me choosing a over b. Could I, when I approached that point in the timeline myself (experiencing time as we seem to experience it, in a linear fashion) - choose b?He'd only experience what you pick. Your pick determines his experience, not the other way around. Since God is outside of time, they happen simultaneously. He cannot have foreknowledge of an event which will not happen. Foreknowledge and predetermination are not the same thing. You make your choice. The being with foreknowledge simply knows what your choice will be--he does not make it for you.
If predestination is making a choice in place of someone, a being with foreknowledge does not necessarily do that.
If predestination is something else, it is able to coexist with your choice.
Do you disagree?