God can know the future if He wants to know the future. He has to choose not to know the future so that He does not have a influence on the way that things turn out. We really do have free choice.
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No, darling. Your God is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. He sent his revelation to John talking about the end of the world. He is in the future.
What's wrong with this? It's the only rational reconciliation of true omniscience and free will, and it does work on a purely philosophical level. An omnipotent being would have the power to eliminate his own omnipotence, and/or his own omniscience, if that is what said being desired, by placing some limitation on it (like NO FUTURE ALLOWED or possibly ONLY SUCH FUTURE AS IS POSSIBLE WITH PERFECT SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND THE LIMITATIONS OF HEISENBERG UNCERTAINTY AND QUANTUM MECHANICAL PRINCIPLES PROJECTED OVER TIME).
Wow....JohnR7 comes out and directly contradicts 90% of all Christian denominations and the actual Bible itself. John...the Bible says God does know the future. By taking this stance you have just declared that you do not, in fact, believe the Bible is 100% true. You just invalidated your entire belief structiure.
In that case, God isn't benevolent, as he is allowing us to do evil, just so he doesn't know what we will do next. To me, it sounds like he is kinda bored and watches us just to entertain himself, but he just doesn't care about what happens to us.
If he chooses not to save people when he can at no cost, He is malevolent.
The ability remains. Closing His ears to the suffering changes shit all.
So,,,,even your God's willfully ignorant?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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