Omniscience and Temporality of God

Buddy Reed
First, to determine the eactness of God's foreknowledge, we must take a look at God's existence in respect to time. In this respect God can exist in two ways. the First is a tempolral existence, meaning that God exist within the boundaries of time. The Question here is whether or not God's divine foreknowledge hinders man's free will. If God really know's the future, and truly knows what decision we are going to make in any given circumstances, then is it not to say that man has no free will because God is infallible and knows the future?

Going back to God's existence; if he exist atemporally, meaning God exist outside of the boundaries in time, then I propose that God knows every possible choice that any given human can make at any given time in every possible universe, assuming that there is infact a multi-verse. God existing outside of time allows him to see past, present, and future simultaneously. With God being as knowledgeable as he is, then he could know the outcome of our entire life in any possible universe, that is from any possible free choice we make at any juncture in our lives, and simultaneously see each of these possible universes in action playing themselves out knowing that the only real universe/timeline is the one that correspond's to our freely made decisions.

This view is not to say that we as men do not lose our ability to make free choices and further more it does not stripGod of his omniscience. Instead it upholds both claims. God presents to us a choice and from that choice he knows every possible outcome. However, we are left to make that choice for ourselves.

Published by Buddy Reed

Humbly I am the amalgamation of naturally occuring minerals and elements held together by a localized electro-magnetic force. I am self aware and contemplative of philosophy, religion and the secrets of the...  View profile

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