(September 19, 2013 at 4:35 pm)John V Wrote: That presumes that god experiences time the same way we do. There are also arguments re: omniscience/free will based on god experiencing time differently than we do. I go with the non-existence argument lately because I'm tired of this one.
I would think that a God who knows everything would not be capable of surprise, as he has always been and has always known everything at all times. At any point in time, God must have known precisely how everything, ever, would play out. So, God's subjective experience of time's flow can't possibly make a difference, and the question remains valid: how can an all-knowing God experience surprise?
There has to be a compromise to make it logical, so do we admit that God is not all-knowing and is capable of being taken by surprise, or do we admit that God's atrocities, rather than knee-jerk reactions to surprise, are acts of carnage and terror he planned long before his victims existed?
