1-If God is omniscient then there is no free will - I believe this to be false (or misleading at best) because:
a. God's perspective and knowledge is unattainable from our perspective
b. While he may have a summed up knoweldge, we don't have access tothe whole of that info.
c. Free will then as an absolute not exist...
d. but, for all practical purposes from our knowledgebase we would have nominal control over what choices we make.
So the only statement I could agree with is "If God is omniscient then there is no absolute free will " but I'd prefer it written,
"Without God's omniscient perspective, free will (aside from instincual reactions) has no author but the self."
a. God's perspective and knowledge is unattainable from our perspective
b. While he may have a summed up knoweldge, we don't have access tothe whole of that info.
c. Free will then as an absolute not exist...
d. but, for all practical purposes from our knowledgebase we would have nominal control over what choices we make.
So the only statement I could agree with is "If God is omniscient then there is no absolute free will " but I'd prefer it written,
"Without God's omniscient perspective, free will (aside from instincual reactions) has no author but the self."
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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