OK maybe I'm thick but me not being omniscient doesn't that mean as far as I'm concerned free will exists? Since I don’t know where I will end up what does it matter?
Makes sense to me. Allowing limited-by-nature speculation into the exact nature of the power of an Omnipotent Being to throw you off your faith is crazy to me. Just live your life. You have NO WAY of understanding how He works/functions. Let it go if the attempt to puzzle it out will actually doom you. Why would you do that???
I understand from God's perspective, if God knows beforehand what will happen then he can not change it.
You mess up everytime you say He "can not." He can. Put it's part of the Game that He WON'T.
Because at one point he should have known about the change...
He knows ALL.
...which means during the change he did not know there would be a change.
You're messing up again. You are putting yourself in His shoes and limiting Him according to your understanding with is, of course, a human one. Don't do that.
If he is bound by time, things must happen transitionally.
Why would He be?
If he is outside time, then he sees all the way ahead, which is strange since things progress in time and space.
There are lots of things that are strange to us. We are NOT omniscient, and the Creation is not OUR baby. We will NEVER understand it all.
But this again means he can’t change it, which removes his omnipotence.
There you go again. It means nothing of t All it means is that YOU don't understand. That's all.
Which means in essence there is no free-will and things are predestined.
smh
The only way to make this work is to remove all logic and things become totally nonsensical and illogical.
The only way to make it work is to start from scratch with your hypothesis, solidify the Facts that God is Eternal, Omnipotent and Omniscient and you are NOT. Those are two completely unchangable, unalterable mathematical symbols for your formula that you ABSOLUTELY CANNOT CHANGE, and now try it again.
My point is though; I don’t know any of this. As far as I’m concerned my actions are continuous and transitional, I don’t know for example what I will do in 20 years. Isn’t that the point? That I should be judged based on what I did and what I knew?
Makes sense to me.
To God this whole charade is pointless. It all seems so unnecessary.
You cannot presume to know the mind of God. His reasons are His own. Why do you think you could possibly understand what motivates a being like that?
It’s already made up at one point and he has to abide by time itself.
He promised that He wouldn't punish/reward until the Last Day, and that the adversary will have respite until that time to act out his part in the Great Game. In that sense, He's limited by time but based upon a self-imposed limitation. Other than that, time does not bind Him.
And somehow time started existing at one point (since we live in time and space) and things were set from the get go, time moves forward. This God existed before time, and then is still outside time while time is moving. Yet time had a beginning and then time is eternal?
Time isn't eternal. It is very much a part of the physics of this universe. In modern science theory it definitely had a beginning (anything before it is the syngularity that our physics cannot penetrate) and when this universe ends, time as we know it will stop.
How can that which not exist at one point, then have a beginning and in the same instant be eternal, as in a loop?
Time in its nature, functions like a watch, counting down the increments of itself as it progresses. Outside of the time stream, nothing counts down to anything. There is no time in the eternal realms by definition.
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