RE: Omniscience and free will are unconciliable
June 26, 2014 at 9:46 pm
(This post was last modified: June 26, 2014 at 9:48 pm by vorlon13.)
Crap, I hate math, and here I am making a GD math post;
Pi has an infinite number of digits, and there is (apparently) no pattern and no repeating.
Forever.
Does God know all the digits of pi ? Well, he can't, contemplating them would take an infinite amount of time, and he would be unavailable for anything else.
-but-
God doesn't need to know all the digits of pi. He just has to know the formula.
So, someone might be, by analogy, programmed with free will, so to speak, and for all intents and purposes have it, but should God desire, he could 'run the program' and then know all about you, even before you do.
And I think I screwed that up.
Nevermind . . .
Pi has an infinite number of digits, and there is (apparently) no pattern and no repeating.
Forever.
Does God know all the digits of pi ? Well, he can't, contemplating them would take an infinite amount of time, and he would be unavailable for anything else.
-but-
God doesn't need to know all the digits of pi. He just has to know the formula.
So, someone might be, by analogy, programmed with free will, so to speak, and for all intents and purposes have it, but should God desire, he could 'run the program' and then know all about you, even before you do.
And I think I screwed that up.
Nevermind . . .
