RE: WLC free will and omniscience
April 4, 2014 at 8:02 pm
(This post was last modified: April 4, 2014 at 8:07 pm by fr0d0.)
(April 4, 2014 at 12:17 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote:(April 1, 2014 at 12:57 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: The future isn't determined, it's just known if any being has the ability to traverse time, or be omnipresent, as God does. God can still mould events to produce results. In this case, our reality is as God wills it. I have no issue with the balance of good and evil. Life wouldn't be possible without it I think.
If God can mold events and alter the future, he never actually knew the future. If God KNOWS the future, the future is determined because there is then a fact of the matter about what will be the case. Since knowledge is classically defined as a justified true belief, and God knows what will be the case, then it is a FACT that the future is determined if God knows the future.
Isn't that semantics? What is important is what you derive from determinism. Some would suggest that this removed choice from linear time beings, where this is clearly false.
(April 4, 2014 at 12:22 pm)Tonus Wrote: To me, the idea that omniscience involves knowing exactly how the future unfolds means that that events are pre-determined and even god cannot change them. Which means that he's stuck in some other god's universe or otherwise is restricted by some outside force or circumstance. In which case, nothing is anyone's fault. Does not compute.
If God operates outside of time, all of time appears at once. When is Gods fine tuning done? 'When' isn't something a timeless God is confined by. The tuning could bea constant ongoing process and our reality an infinitely morphing one.