RE: Theists: How can predetermined fate and free will coexist?
December 20, 2016 at 12:45 am
(This post was last modified: December 20, 2016 at 12:47 am by henryp.)
(December 19, 2016 at 8:03 pm)Tonus Wrote: That's pretty wild, though. Let's say there is a single timeline and God can view it from end to end. Have all of the events actually happened? What if he steps in and makes a change and other changes ripple outward and make big changes in the timeline. Certain events that happened in version 1 do not happen in version 2. Did they "un-happen"?
Huh. Who needs hard drugs when you have timeline theory...
If there's one timeline, I guess God's interference would already be a part of that one timeline? There would never have been a timeline that didn't include his interference? There is no stepping out of the timeline, looking at it, and fidgeting with things. It would all just be, His actions included, from the start. I guess from God's perspective, it would all come into existence simultaneously, with his actions also being simultaneous since God isn't operating 'in time'?
The trick with someone theoretically acting outside of time, is that their behavior wouldn't have the first I do X, then I do Y in whatever that place would be. Everything just is? I don't know. Like you said, hard drugs. I was only prepared for envelope questions.
