RE: WLC, Free Will, and God's divine foreknowledge
March 31, 2017 at 9:00 am
(This post was last modified: March 31, 2017 at 9:01 am by henryp.)
Last time I was here, we had a similar discussion about foreknowledge and free will.
If I video taped you picking a number between 1 and 10, and you picked 7, then somehow I sent that tape back in time to myself before you picked, I'd know you were going to pick 7, because I already watched you do it. But I didn't make you pick 7, that was your choice.
To which you say "But the second time, I had no choice but to pick 7". To which I'd say, there is no second time. It's the same event, the point in time is just being crossed twice.
But all this is just science fiction nonsense, so who really knows, as there are no actual rules for such things. I'm just pointing out, that you can rationalize God's foreknowledge and free will if you pretend time travel works a certain way.
If I video taped you picking a number between 1 and 10, and you picked 7, then somehow I sent that tape back in time to myself before you picked, I'd know you were going to pick 7, because I already watched you do it. But I didn't make you pick 7, that was your choice.
To which you say "But the second time, I had no choice but to pick 7". To which I'd say, there is no second time. It's the same event, the point in time is just being crossed twice.
But all this is just science fiction nonsense, so who really knows, as there are no actual rules for such things. I'm just pointing out, that you can rationalize God's foreknowledge and free will if you pretend time travel works a certain way.
