RE: Could God's creation be like His omniscience?
May 18, 2017 at 10:49 am
(This post was last modified: May 18, 2017 at 10:51 am by Whateverist.)
(May 18, 2017 at 10:36 am)SteveII Wrote:(May 17, 2017 at 10:56 am)Whateverist Wrote: Recently some theist -Steve maybe?- suggested that god's knowing what will be didn't mean he'd been to the future and had witnessed how it turns out. Rather, He just knows everyone so well that all their choices are transparent for him. I probably am butchering this so please correct me if you recall better than I how this worked. [1]
So it occurred to me that the natural world wasn't made to be the way it is by God. Maybe He just looked around, saw that it was good to go and understood how it would all turn out. He didn't decide to set physical laws a certain way, He just knew how they'd work out. Create life? Pfft. Homo sapiens, please. He just grokked the inorganic/organic threshold and saw it how it would go down. He didn't stir any pots, He just watched them. [2]
So God might be a whole lot more passive than sometimes imagined. Maybe He wasn't so much a cosmic watchmaker as He was a cosmic voyeur?
1. No, that was pretty good. It is based on a doctrine called Molinism named after 16th Century Spanish Jesuit theologian Luis de Molina
2. That is called theistic evolution and is a reasonable position that many people believe in. In that view, eventually maybe God has to intervene somehow to endow a human with an immaterial soul. There are also views in between.
Fixed the only part I thought needed it up to here.
(May 18, 2017 at 10:36 am)SteveII Wrote: God directed cosmic and natural evolution wherever it need to go to get what he eventually wanted to develop (stirred the pot).
Do you happen to know if anyone who identifies as Christian believes that cosmic evolution preceded God? Perhaps God evolved prior to man but had some role in man becoming what we are today. I can spin a fairly decent tale in this direction but it obviously falls short of the whopper you have chosen.
