IIIIITHE1IIIII said:
Jumpin said:
| IIIIITHE1IIIII said:
I think you need to understand that you are making this way more complex than it really is. If God created time (and is not affected by it), then he must be able to predict the future. Do you really think that God has no idea of what you will be doing tomorrow, or what will be your next meal?
For the millionth time: God cannot be omniscient while still not be able to see the future. Here is the definition of omniscient:
"Having infinite awareness, understanding, and insight" also: "Possessed of universal or complete knowledge"
The knowledge is not complete, in God's case.
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I would imagine that God would be able to come up with various probabilities based on the absolute level of knowledge available. I see no problems with this.
I do, however, see a problem with assuming omniscience grants the ability to predict the the future with 100% certainty. Take a 6 sided dice for example, would someone with infinite awareness be able to predict what will be rolled with any more accuracy than me? Someone with infinite understanding would understand that rolling a dice would give a 1 in 6 chance, and this would be true of someone with universal and complete knowledge.
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Yes. They would be aware of how your entire brain is composed and how it would make you use your arm/body to throw the dice. Then they simply add the laws of physics to get a 100% accurate answer.
With complete knowledge, our entire universe is predictable.
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How does awareness of how an entire brain is composed grant the ability to predict what someone will be thinking? Particularly a thought that does not yet exist? At best, the only thing that can be extracted are probabilities, and the probabilities are very very large in number when making a prediction on how the brain interacts with the rest of the body. Even if this were the case, a random number generator in a computer would completely eliminate this problem since values are arbitrarily chosen (that means, no knowledge even on the sub-atomic scale of how things are working would be of any value), there is no further mechanism that even someone with absolute knowledge of the workings of the system would be able to predict the value between 1 and 6 as any more than either 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6.
