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Could God's creation be like His omniscience?

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Could God's creation be like His omniscience?
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Could God's creation be like His omniscience?
May 17, 2017 at 10:56 am
Recently some theist -Steve maybe?- suggested that god's knowing what will be didn't mean he'd been to the future and had witnessed how it turns out.  Rather, He just knows everyone so well that all their choices are transparent for him.  I probably am butchering this so please correct me if you recall better than I how this worked.

So it occurred to me that the natural world wasn't made to be the way it is by God.  Maybe He just looked around, saw that it was good to go and understood how it would all turn out.  He didn't decide to set physical laws a certain way, He just knew how they'd work out.  Create life?  Pfft.  Homo sapiens, please.  He just grokked the inorganic/organic threshold and saw it how it would go down.  He didn't stir any pots, He just watched them.

So God might be a whole lot more passive than sometimes imagined.  Maybe He wasn't so much a cosmic watchmaker as He was a cosmic voyeur?
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Could God's creation be like His omniscience? - by Whateverist - May 17, 2017 at 10:56 am

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