tombi123 said:
mmnin said:
:) What we consider absolute is not the same as what an all powerful God would consider absolute. Where we have one instance in our existence, He would have many.
Do you believe in fate tombi or do you believe that we make choices and have a right to choose whatever actions we make?
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I don't believe in fate or destiny. I do believe we make choices and have a right to choose whatever actions we make, as long as those choices don't harm others. The right for me to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
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If you believe in choices, then that means that I can choice to type a K here. Or I could have typed a D instead. With every moment I can choose from an infinite amount of possibilities. That means that while I might not make the given choice, at every point in time I have an infinite number of possibilities that exist and outcomes that could happen. That was also the same for the point before that and the point before that all the way to minus infinity. It will also be the same forward in time for every single event and every single motion and every single person and every single piece of existence.
That is...if we have choice.
Having said that, there exists a scenario where you stayed in bed all day today. There is also a scenario for you deciding to quit your job last Tuesday at 8am. There is also an existing possibility for you to decide to go to law school next year, or 5 yrs from now, or 10. There is one where you are a movie star. One where you were born years later. One where you were still born. One where your parents didn't exist. My point is, that if we have choice, then there are an infinitely many number of possible timelines that spread out for eternity. It would essentially make choice a 5th dimension after time.
Now back to our conversation. If God is all powerful, then He would have control of all of these parallel existences simultaneously, and for what we consider to be our "reality," He could make exist that He cannot pick up the rock. Then in another "reality," which would not be an existence to us and thus would not make sense or be comprihendable to our available senses, He would be lifting the rock. So He would be lifting the rock and not able to lift the rock at the exact same time.