Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site randvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!randvax!edhall From: edhall@randvax.ARPA (Ed Hall) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Omniscience vs. Free Will (again!) Message-ID: <1722@randvax.ARPA> Date: Sat, 25-Feb-84 04:06:23 EST Article-I.D.: randvax.1722 Posted: Sat Feb 25 04:06:23 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Mar-84 13:44:54 EST References: <844@ssc-vax.UUCP>, <6806@unc.UUCP>, <1816@cbscc.UUCP> Organization: Rand Corp., Santa Monica Lines: 16 ------------------------- I have to agree with Paul on this one: God's omniscience does not imply determinism. If I somehow knew every move you were going to make before you made it, it would be a case for my having precognition but not against your having free will. So, God's knowing what you will do in the future doesn't mean that you have no choice in doing it. Foreknowledge does not imply causality. Or is there something here I am missing? It seemed remarkable enough for me to be agreeing with Paul that I had to post this. However, this is all pretty academic to me, as my actual beliefs do not include the person-god that we are discussing. But she/he *is* fun to discuss! -Ed Hall decvax!randvax!edhall