(June 16, 2015 at 9:27 pm)Pyrrho Wrote:(June 16, 2015 at 6:44 pm)IanHulett Wrote: If god is all knowing, he has no free will because he knows what he is going to do in a million years, so he's not all powerful because anything he does in the future is limited by time. For example, if he knows he is going to move a mountain at 6pm tomorrow night, then that's what he's destined to do, and he can't change that. So, if he is all powerful, then he can't know what he's going to do tomorrow at 6pm and thus he isn't all knowing.
Think about it in more ordinary terms. Suppose you decide today that you are going to open a bottle of beer tomorrow after you get home from work. And suppose that after you get home from work tomorrow, you open a bottle of beer. You are not going to tell us that you could not have done otherwise, if you had wished to do otherwise, are you? It is not "destiny" or forced for you to decide to do something in advance and then do it. It is that at the time you do it, you still want to do it. Otherwise, you would not do it. The same idea applies to god.
Your missing the point that omnipotence AND omniscience is not possible. It's not a question of God DECIDING he will do something in advance, it is KNOWING what he will do in advance. If he changes his mind, his prior knowledge would then be incorrect, violating his omniscience.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein