(June 10, 2016 at 7:40 pm)Irrational Wrote:(June 10, 2016 at 7:00 pm)SteveII Wrote: Logic is the system or framework organized according to strict principles of validity. It is not a process. It is a noun (unlike thinking, pondering, etc.). You are equivocating between how someone arrives at a logical conclusion and the logical conclusion. Someone could arrive at a logical conclusion without thinking or pondering at all or entirely by accident. Omniscience substitutes for pondering and thinking with the same result: logical conclusion.
You are also introducing an temporal component to the mind of God. Successive thoughts are temporal events. Is God bound by time?
Straw man: You used the word "pondering" and then knocked it over with "why would God need to ponder if he already knows everything?"
By logic, to be sentient, you have to be bound by some time.
Interesting. I can see why God would have to relate to the universe in a temporal manner. However within his mind, being omniscient does not take successive thoughts to know a truth so there would be no change in the mind of God from one instant to another. He would be omniscient with or without the universe with or without time.
