RE: Jesus' Mission....
November 13, 2019 at 6:04 pm
(This post was last modified: November 13, 2019 at 6:05 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(November 13, 2019 at 5:58 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: It doesn't matter what other superpowers a god is alleged to have, or doesn't have. Doesn't have to be a god, either. The dilemma was best expressed in another myth by reference to a precognitive human female. Cassandra was cursed. She knew what was to come, but it being -what was to come-, she could not change it. In her case, because no one believed her. The lesson of the story is simple..when Apollo wants to grab you by the pussy, you let him.
It's an incompatibility between a future state of supposed choice, and the necessity of fatalism in the hypothetical knowledge of that future state.
Technically, it doesn't even matter whether or not a god or anyone else actually knows the future, only that the future can be known.
If that much is true, no matter who or what knows it, how, or if no one knows it, or how.....if the "choice" between vanilla and chocolate is fixed from some point in the past, then it is not a "choice" at all. More like a selection.
I'd hesitate to even call it a 'selection'. You aren't selecting the flavour, it's been selected for you. Sort of like being locked in an otherwise empty room that contains you and a single marble. You invited to choose any marble you like.
But I agree that knowing the future is the linchpin of the whole thing. If God is omniscient, there is no free will. If there is free will, God cannot be omniscient.
Boru
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