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Re: Predestination
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Rodge
Uploaded on 01/16/2008
God might not know the future if His creation included the ability of humans (or any creature) to have free will. In that case, some outcomes would be unpredictable. To claim that God created the universe is not the same as claiming that God is omniscient. What gets folks into trouble is claiming that God is omnipotent and omniscient, which presents the logical conundrum you suggest.
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There isn't a necessary equivalence between a teleological outcome and an operational one,i.e., God may know that the outcome of life ends in death (or some kind of postmortem life), but God may be curious about or wish to see how conscious life is engaged in determining its outcome, the means it takes to get there. God also could know all the outcomes of his creation through a process of subsumption (overtaking and absorbing) that would not entail control of the processes of Being, yet know their realization.
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