by Blueblades 12 Replies latest jw friends
Does God know in advance everything that people will do? Does he foresee and foreknow all future actions of all his creatures,spirit and human?
Or,is God's exercise of foreknowledge selective and discretionary,so that whatever he chooses to foresee and foreknow,he does, but what he does not choose to foresee or foreknow,he does not?
Blueblades
IF there is a God, I hope that he chooses not to know, otherwise why would he have created us knowing how horrible things would turn out.
I just knew somebody was going to post about prescience today!
Earthly beings, trying to get into GOD's head. Silly thoughts isn't it?
Just as well you already know all that's necessary, then, isn't it, Mind!
Over there is someone who is able to lift anything. Across from him is an object that cannot be lifted. So what happens when he trys to lift the unliftable object?
What this tells us is that there is a problem with ideation itself, that is , there is a problem with the process of thought itself. Has anyone realized this yet.
I suppose God can choose to know or not know for the bible says with him all things are possible but as far as Adam and Eve he already knew they were going to fail and had his plan all worked out. Ephesians 1:4 says"just as He chose us in Him BEFORE the foundation of the world,that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself,according to the good pleasure of His will" and so on. The scripture seems to indicate he knew. Anyone else have any thoughts on this?
How could god know everything, when there was nothing? Would not god be an amorphous void, at that time? Can you see something when there is nothing to see, maybe not even something to see with?
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Edited by - saintsatan on 22 January 2003 1:46:44
SS-------- When was there nothing?
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How could god know everything, when there was nothing? Would not god be an amorphous void, at that time?
Before there was anything: time, space, matter, spirit, energy. 'Course, in the second line i'm allowing for the existence of dog god, at that stage.
Theoretically, before the big bang, there was no time, space or matter. Was there energy then? When did energy start? When did spirit start? Is god spirit? Was it always spirit? Was it something else before it was spirit?
Sorry, one question leads to a bunch of others. Maybe we should be philosophers.
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