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From: pmd@cbscc.UUCP (Paul Dubuc)
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Subject: Re: Re: Omniscience vs. Free Will [again!]
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Date: Sat, 25-Feb-84 12:48:51 EST
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>[from Jon White]
> unless you can explain how God can exist in the future without having already
> created it, you have not resolved the omniscience/free will contradiction!


I disagree.  I think the problem is one of perspective--ours versus God's.
God exists outside of time.  We exist in it.  When is the future in God's
perspective?

Going back to David Norris' remarks on God having "created" an infinite
number of possible futures for us; from our perspective we have an infinite
number of choices and it matters not that God knows which one it will be.
(As I said before, precognition does not imply predetermination.)
As far as freewill is concerned, it is only our perspective that really
matters.  That is the only perspective that we can really experience or
comprehend fully.  I don't find it suprising that there are some things
about the nature of God that are beyond my complete comprehension.  If the
God of the Bible is who he says he is, I would expect that.  Being able
to grasp what it would be like to exist outside the realm of time and
space falls into that category.  Space and time are so much a part of our
exsitence... only death will separate us from them and give us that
perspective.

Paul Dubuc