RE: A timeless being cannot create
August 21, 2019 at 10:32 am
(This post was last modified: August 21, 2019 at 10:34 am by GrandizerII.)
(August 21, 2019 at 3:51 am)Grandizer Wrote:(August 20, 2019 at 11:41 pm)mcc1789 Wrote: I can probably summarize it if you want.
I just got done reading up to the author's alleged dismantling of the argument for logical determinism, and I remain unconvinced that he did.
The argument does not say A is necessarily true if A is always true in the actual world. The argument is that if A is always true in the actual world, then it cannot ever be false in the actual world, not that it cannot be false in a possible world. I don't see how the argument is invalid and unsound.
Maybe I'm confused and missing something here?
I'll read the rest later as have to go now.
And I just got done reading the concluding paragraphs. I don't think the author effectively solved the problem he was describing at the start. Only one possible world gets to be actualized, and there's no way the praying believer would have done other than to pray that their child survived the sinking ship in such a world. God being omniscient means he had to know in advance what the believer in the actual world would do, and so he knew that the believer would end up praying for their child. This is not an exercise of free will (in the libertarian sense), but an exercise of inevitable will (or random will, depending on how you look at it). Had the believer not prayed, then God's knowledge would've been false and God would not therefore be omniscient.


