(December 15, 2016 at 11:39 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I think you're thinking of it in terms of Him traveling back and forth in time and whatever He sees when He "travels" to the future is how things are set in stone to be regardless of what might change. Such is not the case. He knows what happens because He exists in a dimension outside of time, meaning He is already seeing the entire span of time and all the actions we choose to take all at once.
So it could be said that God exists in a dimension that it outside of our reality, which means that he does not exist in reality?
In the scenario you describe (which I do not believe is mentioned in the Bible) God sees all of time laid out before him and he can see where we are at any point in it. So... what happens if he takes an action that causes a change or two? Many actions will ripple outward in some way and may change the future drastically. Does the timeline change to reflect God's involvement? Or is he forced to take the actions that he sees in this timeline?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
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