Characteristics cannot exist in one being? Why not?as the characteristics required of a maximally great being cannot coexist in one being, thus such a being could not exist. — Yajur
Why would a person have free will just becuase someone else has foreknowledge of the choice they will make? — DingoJones
Anything Walt Whitman could do, God can do.
— tim wood
If Walt could become an atheist, can God become an atheist too? — Yajur
-DingoJonesI know which one you will choose, does that mean you no longer have a choice?
1. If you have free will to choose, then you must have the possibility to choose each of those options
2. If an omnipotent God knows what you will choose, you would not have the possibility to choose anything else.
3. Therefore, if God knows what you will choose, you would not have the free will to choose (MT 1,2) — Abecedarian
Your assertion, "2.) God’s omnipotence gives Him power to look at the future."
Is defeated by my argument. God can't do the logically impossible.
I am treating A-theory of time (presentism) as true. — Relativist
You are asserting God knows, not showing how it can be possible — Relativist
I believe there is a tension between knowledge of the future (entailed by omniscience) and the notion of omniscience. I'd describe it thusly:future, freely willed acts are unknowable: — Relativist
Some ants debate the existence of God. A theist ant can't expect to persuade an atheist ant by mere assertion and handwaving. The converse is also true, so perhaps we can just agree that God is a hypothetical possibility. — Relativist
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