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Omniscience and free will are unconciliable
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RE: Omniscience and free will are unconciliable
(June 26, 2014 at 9:46 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: 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.


Confused Fall

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 . . .

Assuming that God exists, one could argue that an all powerful God could read infinite chain of numbers and watch over us individually simultaneously with no effort
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RE: Omniscience and free will are unconciliable - by LogicOrDie - June 27, 2014 at 3:13 pm

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