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Are all atheists this ill-informed about religion?
RE: Are all atheists this ill-informed about religion?
Omniscience and free will are a problem - but I say an even larger one looms in the solution that theists often suggest, which is something like the following:

God exists outside of time; temporal events are always present to his knowledge; momentarily granting that free will can be intelligibly incorporated into either schemes of spontaneity and/or necessity, his omniscience merely implies foreknowledge of what, in time, freely or causally follows - albeit an individual's will or acts of will or whatever is meant by that term.

The consequence is this: it means that God's omniscience is effected by temporal events - which is an absurd situation given his creation of, and existence outside, time.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
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RE: Are all atheists this ill-informed about religion? - by Mudhammam - October 30, 2015 at 5:30 pm

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